Brilliant but Scary !!

Rating: 8/10 (27 December 2014)

I'm a fan of David Fincher's works. Starting from Se7en, I enjoyed all his movies. My favorite are Fight Club and Social Network. The thing I like abt Fincher's movies is that they're dark. No character is black or white. He paints each character in different shades of grey.
Well...Gone Girl goes on step ahead. Here the main characters are scarring twisted.
Based on a Gillian Flynn's novel (who also has written the screenplay), the story is not about a husband being framed for his wife's murder but how a couple's marriage is slowly breaking apart as the years go by. It is also the shocking story of the wife who seeks vengeance from her husband. His fault ...for not being the man he was before marriage.
Gone Girl is so layered that most directors would have lost the plot. but Fincher ensures that we the audience are hooked to see how the story ends for Nick and Amy (Affleck & Pike).
And by the time the movie ended, it ran a chill down my spine. Not only mine but my married friend who came with his wife and lots of other men in the theater. And this is thanks to one brilliant performance by Pike.
Pike is fabulously brilliant as Amy. As Nick says..I really want to know what is going on in your mind. She is girl you want to marry when u meet her first but as the movie progresses you sympathize with her and by the time we reach the end..you want to kill her. This performance deserves as Oscar nomination. And I pray she wins it.
Affleck is equally good as the husband whom you hate and for whom you sympathize at the end. Affleck is easy on the eyes.
The supporting star cast starting is great starting with Carrie Coon who plays Affleck's caring and lovin twin sister, Kim Dickens who is brilliant as the Detective and Tyler Perry who in the short cameo is hilarious as Affleck's attorney.
Gone Girl is not an easy watch but a must watch for all movie buffs. Fincher ups the ante once again.