Master director elevates familiar material

Rating: 8/10 (17 October 2014)

The most interesting thing about "Gone girl" for me is the fact that underneath all the director's mastery is kind of a typical twisty thriller that in other hands could have left much weaker impression (you can see "Perfect stranger", for example, to help you imagine how it could look).
This film truly made me think that David Fincher can, if needed, elevate any material, make a very impressive movie almost from any script and, like a magician, make us not see most of its flaws. I'm not saying the source material here is bad, but its screen adaptation certainly could look much less convincing and fresh, much more problematic.
In one interview David Fincher said that he shot 500 hours of footage for this film and this is probably one of the keys to how he does this magic - squeezing everything he can from the cast and the crew.
This is one of David Fincher's best movies although on paper it kind of shouldn't be.