Settle down lads, it's just a movie

Rating: 8/10 (6 February 2015)

I really enjoyed this movie, in a world where there is a never-ending splurge of comic book films, it is nice to something with a bit more bite. I said I had to defend it, it was getting some slack, I have read some of the negative reviews and I feel they are completely missing the point of the story. The "gaping holes in the plot line" so many refer to, are people being extremely pedantic. It doesn't matter why these things occurred , or how for that matter, the main protagonist was a psychopath who orchestrated her own murder. You know at the end of the film that the detective KNOWS she is lying about her story but no one is going to look into it anymore. She gets away with it because she is going to have the husbands baby so he is choosing to stay with her. It's fiction!
Let's just answer some of these holes 1. The book, the husband found the book, thought it was incriminating, went away from his house (which was being searched) and tried to burn the diary but was interrupted by the police. She never said the other guy did that. 2. There aren't always witnesses so cars, people leaving, etc., can go unnoticed all the time- what time did your neighbours leave this morning? Haven't a notion! The neighbour was old, maybe he came out a specific time everyday. 3. Who says there no further investigation? The FBI were looking into it, yeah I did wonder about the cameras in the lake house but meh feck it, it's fiction, it's her word against the other guy and he's dead. They could have been in his other house that doesn't have cameras.
The only discrepancy that bothered me was how she went from a definite beer-bellied size 12 to an 8, in a seriously short space of time. It would have been good if they'd delved into the relationship she had with Desi a bit more.
All in all, a good watchable movie.