Seriously?!? Sitcom acting, poor directing and an incredibly weak story.

Rating: 2/10 (24 August 2015)

A very high rating on IMDb. An Oscar nomination. Directed by the great David Fincher. What could possibly go wrong? Well, actually an awful lot! The film sometimes looks to be directed by a Hitchcock wannabe. In several scenes there was a poor attempt to copy the master's style. The worst one was where the blood flows away in the shower. But was there also a very poor attempt (and quickly abandoned) to copy the wonderful weird female police officer in Fargo by Frances McDormand? David Fincher? Really? What was the matter with him?
Was this film written by the same writers as Desperate Housewives? As far as I could tell it had a similar atmosphere and an attempt was made to recreate the same darkish style and madness. But what do I know? I never followed that sitcom, only saw a few scenes. The acting was stiff and mediocre at best. So there was not much pleasure to watch the film in this department either.
And then the enormous quantity of goofs. Other contributors wrote a lot about them and I think they were right. The goofs were really irritating and numerous. Among the worst:

Somebody losing such a large quantity of blood and not really being weakened by it?

Clear evidence found in the shed in the form of a note that was never sent to the police and that was later also never mentioned anymore? - A murder suspect released on bail so easily? Would he really get bail? A murder suspect who does not even have any money to pay his bail with?

Somebody turning up covered in blood, very quickly examined in a hospital, immediately very informally questioned by a huge group of police officers and immediately sent home, while all the time still covered in blood? Yeah, right.

A murder committed in a house covered with cameras and the video coverage was never looked at? It would be extremely unlikely that the video coverage would back up the story without any questions asked. For instance why she ended up voluntarily in the house while after she was supposed to have been abducted? Where she claimed to have been tied up which would never have been recorded or even indicated on video?

Then all of a sudden the woman is pregnant after a highly incredible artificial insemination subplot? A bit very extremely unlikely! And this crazy turn would convince her husband to stay with her? Yeah, right.

This film was not worth watching. Imo it certainly is not worth all the IMDb praise or rating. It was just a poor waste of time. And then it also ended with a huge and very unlikely cliff-hanger! So this rubbish can be followed up by even more rubbish?