Could be considered as 'trying too hard'

Rating: 8/10 (8 July 2015)

The film, Gone Baby Gone, directed by Ben Affleck is classified as a Crime/Drama/Mystery, but I would consider it to be trying too hard to fill those boots, instead of blossoming into the Thriller that I know it could be. Now, I know that it has to follow the book and all that, but maybe that's the problem, it was entertaining, and it ticked most of the boxes, but I believe that the underlying problem is with the story, or lack there of. Now, I gave the film 8 stars out of 10 because, although its efforts may have been faulty, there were definite glimmers of hope, for example, the tension built in the house of the child molester and cocaine lovers really brought me to the edge of my seat, but in the end, the movie attempts and fails at trying to recreate the grittiness of films like Se7en, and the tension of films like Zodiac.