Gone Girl - very good but ending so-so

Rating: 9/10 (22 October 2014)

Very few films have the capability of keeping me awake for more than two hours. And sometimes, it's even less than two hours. Gone Girl, just like the trilogy of the Dark Knight, is one of those films: it's much longer than it appears to be. Peter Jackson should take note. Seriously, I never got to the end of a Peter Jackson movie.
Anyways, "Gone Girl"'s plot is excellent and its atmosphere made me think of that of Prisoners (2013). Where things get spoiled a little, it's in the last 30 minutes or so, when Amy begins a new life with Desy. I would have stopped the movie at that very moment. But I think the authors have their reasons. They clearly wanted:
1.To show how Amy had everything planned. Yes, her plan even provided her with a way out, in case she wanted to come back with Nick! 2. To prove that Amy is 100% bananas (and not just 50%)
I found interesting the way the movie shows how public opinion is important in huge trials and how, at the same time, it is so easily influenced. Overnight, following his staged interview, everybody loved Nick just because he managed to make a very good impression. We ultimately realize that law, which is supposed to govern our society, has now been replaced by pure marketing, where the defendant's lawyer (more of a PR expert, that is!) tries to sell the public Nick's innocence. That was well done.
All in all, a very good movie, but with an end a little below the standards it has initially set.
9/10