Artificially inflated review score by people giving this 10

Rating: 2/10 (29 November 2014)

This movie's rating on here has also been artificially inflated by people rating it 10, and it is easy to see the common thread of these people, usually about David Fincher being amazing. In this movie, the direction was the least of the problems.
This movie is bad. Very, very bad. It is so full of holes, and not little holes that are easy to let go, but massive, gaping, sucking black holes where some sense of logic should have prevailed but none did, that it is impossible for any person of sound mind and logic to accept all the impossible and implausible outcomes.
I won't bore you with details or spoil the excruciating pain of the length of this drawn out movie that starts off interesting, shows some early promise, then gets caught up in its own plot twists that have no plausible premise, and finishes with some of the most absurd scenes and leaps of faith I can ever recall in any movie that is termed "drama". An easy cop-out seems to be some reviewers (those rating it 10) referring to it as "the blackest of black comedies", but this is just an attempt to subvert the reader from the simple fact it was so bad we couldn't even really laugh at it.
It's truly a ridiculous film, a total slap in the face for an intriguing book. The first half was acceptable, but the second half was an absolute mess. This movie should offer refunds to those who paid money to see it. Maybe even give them some extra dollars for the time they had to sit through just to get to the cringe-worthy ending that resolved nothing.