Gone but not forgotten! Great flick!

Rating: 9/10 (15 December 2014)

David Fincher's "Gone Girl" wont disappear too much during movie awards season and box office fare because of its critical & commercial success. It is a prototype fine Fincher film. The flick stars Ben Affleck as Nick Dunne, a writer who has fallen on hard economic times, but wait I am not Dunne yet. Nick also discovers on the day of his anniversary that his wife Amy is missing. Amy is also a writer who was famed for writing an "Amazing Amy" novel series. Nick turns out to be a suspect of his missing wife. But I won't reveal much more about the plot because then I will have lots of gone girls and boys from reading the rest of my review. Affleck holds game in his starring performance as Nick, but it was Rosamund Pike who reached a new peak in her promising acting career with her outstanding performance as Amy; it will be amazing if she gets nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, which surely is a shoe-in to happen. Believe it or not, Tyler Perry does not bolt it away and does credible supporting work as Nick's attorney Tanner Bolt. Neil Patrick Harris is hosting the Oscars, and also hosted us to a worthy supporting performance as Amy's obsessed ex Desi. Carrie Coon also delivered a cool Coon performance as Nick's sister Margo. Fincher's exemplary direction was not gone from this picture, and Gillian Flynn was in in her impressive screenplay adaption of her own "Gone Girl" novel. OK, I am about gone here. Just see "Gone Girl" if you haven't already. **** Excellent