Spoiler alert- You cannot have a terrible ending to a movie and give this more then 4 stars PERIOD!

Rating: 2/10 (27 December 2014)

To everyone
1)The acting was very good-Affleck plays a dumb guy like a natural - is he really acting? The rest of the cast was very good. Neil Patrick Harris was great as always.
2)Fincher did his best despite a terrible plot and bad editing.
Had this movie ended with Affleck getting the death sentence and the wife getting captured or killed by Neil Patrick Harris and just ended instead of giving us 30 more minutes of a crazed lunatic women plotting a way to undo her original plot that she was murdered by her husband, then you would have a great movie here with a great dark ending.
This movie though has a women plotting the death of her husband by framing him for a murder that clearly we knew he did not commit. The guy was a drunken loser from the start of the movie after all. Murderers don't play xbox - drink at a bar the day he commits murder, is corgile to his nosy neighbor, ups a life insurance months before a murder from 1m to 1.2m, not to mention go on a spending spree and hide all the items in my sisters woodshed, etc...
There was no mystery that he was guilty - sorry people - maybe the book had a mystery here, but not in the movie!
He was clearly innocent and acted that way. We knew it unless your head was in the sand!
Then halfway through we found out he was innocent by seeing her and finding out how crazy she is, which validated 100% of what he said.
No mystery there either.
The only thriller aspect was, how was he going to get out of being accused of her murder!
This would have been good if he did get framed for murder and convicted, then I would say bravo to a smart lead female character!
BUT
She fell apart when she did her road trip of hate towards her husband by getting caught up in the media and his appeals to her! Emotion got the best of a heartless CRAZY WOMEN??? Is that possible? She got emotional?
So she decides she now wants to undo her murder? How do you undo your own murder that she planned for months or years?
YOU DON'T! This movie jumped the shark at that point - the thrill was, will she get him convicted of murder or not.
That thrill ended as we watched the last 20 minutes of him letting her back in his life after all she put him through!
It was like going to the dentist and having a cavity filled! Really - He takes her back????????
WORST MOST UNREALISTIC ENDING IN A SERIOUS MOVIE EVER!!!!
He takes her back!!!!!
Is this a best selling book for Americans today - which I am, but am afraid of how easily duped we can be!
Again, - had he died by the death penalty - and she got trapped by her stalker, then you have a great ending, but a just wait and see how dumb these two people are taking each other back into their lives ending is 1 and a billion - and reality TV at it's worst!
I know a lot of you people who liked the ending love this kind of nonsense endings that only happen to 1 and a billion and is on all those dumb TV show drama's, but that is not for me!
Sorry!
1 last thing - she leaves a clue to the woodshed where he had all kinds of expensive stuff hidden in, but never opens it or uses it? Why would a guy who murders his wife do that? Why????? Why spend them into more debt and bump your insurance by a simple 200k, to prove that you are a murderer? Who does that?
The wife reads books on the perfect crime - and she comes up with leaving clues that incriminates herself more then him!
Sorry for the rant, this movie sucked and the people who liked it are off the wall with tabloid bs!
A note for Fincher lovers - The Sixth Sense was a classic by M Knight Shamalan - but really - they are different movies to follow - so let's take this piece of crap Gone Girl and let it Get GONE!!!!