While it keeps you interested, in the end - Unsatisfying

Rating: 7/10 (2 October 2014)

"Gone Girl" is the first most anticipated movie of the Oscar Season to be released. Based on the popular novel, Nick Dunne's, portrayed by Ben Affleck, wife Amy, portrayed by Rosamund Pike, disappears. Nick, the focus of intense media scrutiny, becomes suspected of murdering his wife. The first part of the movie flashes back to Nick and Amy relationship, meeting five years ago, until the present day. Both the characters are writers, and the theme whether they are being their real selves with each other plays out. In regards to Amy's Disappearance, you know that only 1 of 2 things is possible – Which it is – That is revealed half way through the movie. Positives – Carrie Coon's performance as Nick's Twin Sister Margo, whose character adds good humor and or spirit, while a lot of the other characters are often dry, and for the most part Kim Dickens and Patrick Fugit's performances as the detectives investigating Amy's disappearance. I like Ben Affleck, I think he will make a great "Batman" - for this movie, certain scenes I would say he nails it, and certain ones, I would have wanted another take – so an uneven performance. While Rosamund Pike isn't bad, I would not call it a "Breakout – Oscar Worthy" performance, as I have heard it hyped. In the end, while the movie keeps you interested in terms wanting to know what ultimately happens, I have to give it a slight thumbs down, and the end of the movie I found particularly unsatisfying. I checked, and the critical response is so far very good. I predict this will be one of those films where critics and audiences for the most part are split, and in terms of the critical reaction, I will think of it as ultimately overrated, and not in the it was Good, not Great way. 2 ½ out of 4 Stars.