Disappointing waste of time

Rating: 1/10 (18 January 2015)

Like many others, I was shocked by how bad this movie was, and the many plot holes. It's hard to know where to start--Amy being sent home from the hospital still covered in blood was one low point.
I also agree with the earlier reviewer who says the movie is anti-female empowerment. It makes the commentators on TV talking about domestic violence seem like the enemy-because you "know" at that point the husband is wrongly accused, so you see the women talking about husbands murdering wives, on the pseudo-Nancy Grace talk show, as false accusers and man haters. Very disturbing.
However, I wrote this review to point out one plot hole, one very big plot hole, nobody else seemed to notice. Again, spoiler here: Amy is a psychopath, supposedly. The whole story turns on the idea that she is sociopathic and abusive and has been for years (witness her framing of the ex-boyfriend 8 years earlier). Why, then, does she give/lend her parents almost her entire trust fund, simply because they ask? It is already established that they care more for fictional Amazing Amy than for her. Her reason: At the end of the day, the trust fund is "really their money." Huh? That's how a psychopath/ sociopath thinks, about parents she doesn't like? Or was it part of her "evil plan" all along to end up broke in Missouri, so she could start to hate her husband and try to frame him? (sarcasm) It's just dumb.
How did this movie (and book) get such great buzz? I left the movie wondering sadly, is this what people like now? BTW, I watched this with a largely college age audience who laughed several times, especially when Amy flips her (non-bloodsoaked) blond hair at the end of the bloody murder scene. At then laughed again when the credits were rolling.