The book was better

Rating: 7/10 (13 December 2014)

This is a really brilliant film, and was in good hands with David Fincher, but I couldn't help remembering how utterly fantastic, thrilling and scary the original book by Gillian Flynn was. How for the first time, I actually felt unsafe reading a book due to the massive twist in one of the first person narratives.
One of the flaws in the film is that the character of Amy (played in an intensely creepy and brilliant manner by Rosamund Pike) was not given all the details of her past, her life and relationship with her parents, and more into her relationship with Nick, to fully explain why she did the things she did.
Nick comes off quite quickly to the audience as being the unlikable bastard the public in the film believe. And also, the relationship with his dad is just hinted as being "strained" in the film and doesn't explore why they don't like each other much.
The ending, unfortunately, is pretty poor compared to the one in the book, using only ambiguity.
Although the movie is well shot and acted, finally giving the typical Hollywood audience something new and engaging, it simply didn't carry enough of the urgency and depth that the novel had.