Salt of the Earth from America's Heartland . . .

Rating: 9/10 (6 October 2014)

. . . GONE GIRL is every woman's fantasy, along the lines of 50 SHADES OF GREY, which previewed before my GG showing. If you think the Femme Fatales in those Chinese martial arts flicks or the SIN CITY series are realistic, then you will have no problem with GONE GIRL. On the other hand, guys will find "Amazing Amy's" Hijinks hoot-out-loud entertaining. (A little hint for any cerebral viewers: novelist\screenwriter Gillian Flynn couldn't possibly mean anyone to see any aspect of verisimilitude between Real Life and any events or characters in this tall tale, so she obviously means it to be taken allegorically, with "Amazing Amy" being George W. Bush and Suffering Nick a stand-in for Barack Obama.) Since IMDb says this comment is too short so far to be acceptable, I'll simply add a thank you to My Own Personal Gone Girl, who picked me up a while back as I was desperately hitch-hiking during an ice storm from Marquette, MI to Cape Giradeau, MO--where much of GONE GIRL was shot, jogging my memory. A few hours earlier I believe Jeffrey Dahmer had given me a ride but left me off with a warning not to trust people who picked up strangers (I guess I was less his "type" than Gone Girl's).