Disappointing

Rating: 6/10 (14 December 2014)

I'd been wanting to see it with great expectation, since I'd heard good critics and I think,or thought, Fincher was an interesting director. Seven and Fight Club were good, intense, demonstrations of this, and of Fincher's mastering of the genre.
I should have second guessed, since he also made incredibly boring films like Benjamin Button and video collections of the most distasteful musicians.
On to the movie. The first hour is like an episode of CSI, in fact, I think it actually is. The case is therefore obvious and what bothers me most is that these people underestimate the audience and don't even bother to check the story they're telling. Unlike CSI, this movie is like 2.30hs long, which is completely unnecessary, but Fincher seems to think, like many others, that length equals quality, or at least Oscar consideration.
And when you think: OK, we're only in the middle of the movie, this might get better (because you can't think that they've made such a fuss over this mediocre film), then it gets worse.
Someone commented that there was a twist but it lasted like 10 minutes and then it just flat-lined, that's exact. After the fleeting twist there's another boring drama hour, that adds a super flaw to the film: improbability. In the suspense genre, the use of clues, the credibility of the script, is everything.
This movie is full of loose ends and the plot just doesn't work.
I say, the only remarkable thing in the film is the casting, Rosamund Pike is right for the part, Neil Patrick Harris does a great supporting role and Ben Affleck has the perfect dumb face for the lead.