Thrilling, yet disturbing but totally watchable

Rating: 8/10 (13 October 2014)

13 October 2014 Film of Choice at The Plaza Dorchester Tonight - Gone Girl. A lot of people knock Ben Affleck and I'm not completely sure why. He was very watchable in this quite long but very gripping mystery thriller. On his fifth wedding anniversary Nick Dunne (Affleck), reports his wife Amy missing (played by Rosamund Pike) and what starts out as a seemingly ordinary disappearance is pulled apart by a media circus and very soon Nick is being accused of his wife's murder. It's easy to see how stories get out of hand when you watch how the media manipulate things to their own design and this film was scarily realistic, telling a tale from the husbands point of view, but not without a little manipulation from another source. Pike was a master in her part, and the supporting cast were well chosen as their mannerisms matched the script with varying amounts of disbelief and cynicism. Look out for Neil Patrick Harris, recently starred in A Million Ways to Die In The West but was famous at the end of the 80s for playing little Doogie Howser MD. As I said this film was long but well worth staying in your seat. Another interesting thing to note is that one of the producers is none other than Reese Witherspoon.