Brilliant Over the Top Thriller

Rating: 9/10 (16 August 2015)

Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) comes home one morning to find that his wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike) has gone missing, amid signs of a struggle. Scenes of the case, and Nick, being investigated, are interspersed with Amy's diary entries, which cover the early, happier days of their relationship, and the darker ones after the recession hit and things took a turn for the worse. While the movie sets itself up for a modicum of ambiguity, it's actually relatively straightforward once it starts playing its hand. Gone Girl was a novel of two voices; here it's a piece of one set of actions and one of narrations, a different representation of each half of the relationship. If Nick and Amy are dysfunctional at best, Fincher and Flynn are the actual dynamic duo that make Gone Girl work, having made careful decisions as to what to reveal at any given time.