Surprisingly funny. Killer film

Rating: 9/10 (16 June 2015)

I absolutely loved Gone Girl. It's brutal, it's witty, it's hilarious, it's a pretty intense deconstruction of marriage and most of all it's fantastically acted. I've seen some people say that it was rubbish and basically funny as if it was accidental, but that really isn't the case - the wit I think is perfect. It's a silly (but very entertaining) plot and Fincher knows it.
The film can basically be split into two halves and two different sociopaths in Nick and Amy, with the audience sort of siding for each one across the film's breathless two and a half hours. It has plenty of thrills, a twist that you sort of see coming and a brilliant relationship between Affleck and Pike who are perfectly cast.
Another star of the show is Tyler Perry as a fantastically funny hotshot lawyer who has some of the standout lines of the whole. "Our prayers have been answered, it's the miracle on the Mississippi" - great stuff.
Daft but thought-provoking, funny but at times serious - definitely one of the best films of 2014.