DHKR: Gone Girl- "An Amazing Movie that I Can't Help but Hate"

Rating: 8/10 (19 July 2015)

Gone Girl is perhaps one of the darkest, most suspenseful and shocking movies I've ever seen. It's well directed with a creative, unique style. The actors, while some I personally despise, are working on all cylinders to give us engaging characters that feel real and flawed. The story is one of the best I've seen, so much of starts off one way, but near the first hour mark it's quickly turned on it's head. It's one of the best films of it's breed, always coming up with a new way to surprise and shock you, the audience, in ways once thought unimaginable or impossible.
But, at it's heart, I have to say that this is one of the few movies I have a bright, burning hatred for. I'll get into it soon, but bottom line is that the movie is great. I wouldn't have thought it came from a book, but the only difference is that the book had more moments then the movie, so all different connections end there.
So, if I'm giving this movie all of this praise, why do I hate it? Well, most of it resides in the character of Amy Dunce. Heaven above do I hate this character! She's a mentally broken, brutally manipulative, horrible waste of human scum. I know, that sounds really harsh, but if you saw the film already, and you WILL see this film, trust me on that, you can see where I've drawn such a passion to despise. Amy is one of the few characters, from any kind of outlet of media, that I personally Loathe. And after watching the film, I'm sure you will too.
Another big problem with the film happens after the big twist that Amy's "Diary" is actually forged and all lies. However, even after the hour mark where that twist takes place, she still goes out and tells everyone these lies. And guess what? Everyone still believes it. It's almost as if the entire town is run by idiots and treaded upon by such. I don't know, it just undermines the audience in my opinion. I swear, there were moments where I just wanted to yell out "She's Lying You Stupid Bloody Idiots" for the entire land of suburbia to hear.
There are other minor things here and there that I can only call 'Minor Gripes', like some of the promiscuous sex scenes look rather tame and laughably fake(The sex scene in James Cameron's 'Avatar' looked less fake.) and some characters felt rather useless or just there to make a kind of conflict, like FemiNazi Ellen Abbot, who's obviously a parody of Nancy Grace. Interesting additions, but not exactly used to it's fullest potential like how every other actor is.
After the hour mark, it also seems like the film wants to make this shift in genre from a pure, psychological thriller, into a sort of drama with thriller themes thrown in there. It feels like two different movies are playing now, and that the whole twist was going to be the ending of the first film and they hoped to make a sequel out of it. But then the director was scarred to make that kind of leap of faith, so he just stitched the two drafts together while the second was halfway done, and the rest was just filled in by a guy who wanted to throw in as many shocking moments as possible.
Near the 2nd hour mark, the film takes a far more gruesome turn, as Amy's full psychotic nature is unleashed. You could probably put the soundtrack to Silent Hill 2 to this scene and you couldn't make it any less fitting. We see Amy trying to frame Neil Patrick Harris for attempted rape (COUGH*BULLCRAP*COUGH), Slit his throat with a box cutter while they try to have sexual intercourse, Even a scene where she sodomizes her self with a wine bottle. Yeah, let all those colorful images sit in your brain.
Now, after all of this, all of those painful, disgusting moments, everything you went through just watching Ben Affleck's character go through hell and back, what happens at the end? Does Nick reveal the insane wife to being...well, insane? Does he let her go so she can go to a mental institute? Do they even try and file a divorce?
HELL NO! You want to know what happens? Amy and Nick go take a shower, while she's covered in blood mind you, and then she reveals that she used his iced sperm to impregnate herself, forcing him to stay with her. Fade to the intro scene, Fade to black, End Scene, Roll Credits.
Gone Girl is a very good movie, and I really can't stress it enough. Everything it get's right it get's very right. The story is very engaging, and you can't ever look away, in case you'll miss a good piece of evidence in the character's story. It's writing is impeccable, it's characters are well rounded, even the ones I hate, and the whole film's atmosphere is incredible. However, everything about Amy's character is mentally scarring, some characters feel underutilized, and by GOD that ending was horrible. I never felt more angry and hateful towards a movie like this, and still applaud it for it's amazing merits.
Final Results: 4 Stars- A-Ranking