Two gone girls and a guy

Rating: 8/10 (5 November 2015)

Right from the beginning let me say that I loved this clever movie, which is many notches above the average thriller.
However my plot hole detection antenna, fine-tuned over hundreds of episodes of "Columbo", "Morse", "Wallander", "Jesse Stone", "Lewis", "Silent Witness" and of course, "Poirot" and "Miss Marple", pinpointed an unresolved plot element, which probably would have added yet another cute twist at the end.
What happened to Greta and Jeff, the two lowlifes who rob Amy at the motel? They guessed that she was hiding out, but logic would have to tell you that with all the publicity, sooner or later they were bound to realise who she was, and they would know that Desi Collins hadn't kidnapped her at her front door as she claimed.
Being total scumbags, surely they would have seen the opportunity to either blackmail her or sell their story to the media. Maybe they were in jail or dead but something needed to be explained. It would have added a nice little piece of business for Amy to overcome, or at the very least the thought of the two of them still out there would have given even more ambiguity to her final look to camera. Anyway it's a nagging detail that just seemed to leave a hole in the internal logic of the film; Greta and Jeff are simply gone.
Maybe plenty of others have picked up on this point, but as there are 1,076 reviews of "Gone Girl" on IMDb as of this writing, I haven't read them all. Also to date, this point hasn't appeared in IMDb Trivia or Goofs as a plot hole.
With that off my chest, I love how the story turns on its head at the midpoint. I don't think giving the big surprise away so early was a problem. After all Hitchcock did it many times in his movies, believing that the suspense came from the audience waiting to see when the protagonists will find out what is going on.
Like all Fincher's films this one has a dark, ominous look; I can't ever see the guy doing comedy. I also admire the moody, atmospheric score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
Great movie all round; a clever story with plenty of layers, stylish direction and perfect performances, but there is still just that nagging little detail