Great script from a brilliant novel

Rating: 8/10 (11 December 2011)

Dennis Lehane's book, with these Kenzie-Gennaro detective couple, is enjoyable. "Gone baby gone" is certainly one of the nicest thriller novel ever written. The script by Affleck and Stockard is also great. They rightfully chose to cut the angles and went to the core of this story. They did well. For his first movie as a director, Ben Affleck is doing a very good effort, especially with his cast. There are a bunch of great actors in this, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, Amy Ryan and Amy Madigan, and they are all good. The only thing that bothers me is Casey Affleck. He's done a good performance, but the only problem is he doesn't look like the part is described in Lehane's novel. So it's hard to believe is as tough than he has to. But the couple is completing with Michelle Monaghan is OK. They fit well together and you have to believe in them to like this movie. It's a brutal movie, with a lot of violence and coarse language. But hey, the story is going on in the poorest and tough neighbourhood in Boston. You have to be good in vocal English, because the slang used is sometimes hard to hear.