Horror Unseen

Rating: Null/10 (4 October 2014)

David Fincher has directed his best film to date with Gone Girl, the screen adaptation of the popular novel of the same name by Gillian Flynn. Flynn is responsible for the screen play as well.
Amy Dunne (Rosamund Pike) is missing from her home in a Missouri suburb the morning of her fifth wedding anniversary. Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) discovers the front door open and signs of a "struggle" in their living room.
So begins this tail of obsession, revenge, and deceit played out in a world of celebrity opinion news (think Nancy Grace and 20/20), media press conferences, and web tip sites. Enter into a world where nothing is as it seems.
Ben Affleck delivers a stellar performance as Nick Dunne, the conflicted, confused husband, who is the target of Amy Dunne's (Rosamund Pike) sociopathic wrath. Rosamund Pike (Amy Dunne) is brilliant and chilling as the psychological sadist and sociopath wife.
Neil Patrick Harris turns in a solid performance as Amy's obsessed high school sweet heart. Tyler Perry plays Tanner Bolt, Nick's defense attorney. The pacing of this film is interesting. Slower when it needs to be and faster at other times. It works. The music by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross is appropriately unnerving without getting in the way. The lighting is classic Finch in the first third of the movie transitioning to brighter, more appealing lighting after that.
Enter the theater, get comfortable, allow yourself suspension of disbelief, and enjoy this thriller.