The Vidiot Reviews...

Rating: 8/10 (4 January 2015)

Gone Girl
If your wife ever goes missing be sure to put her photo on the sides of skim milk cartons only.
Unfortunately, the husband in this drama is too detached to care.
When beloved children's book inspiration Amazing Amy (Rosamund Pike) disappears on her 5th wedding anniversary, her husband Nick (Ben Affleck) becomes the prime suspect.
Condemned on cable news networks as a wife-killer, Nick's aloofness, and his secret affair, draws further aspersions of guilt.
However, the true fate of Amy is more shocking than her initial vanishing, and subsequent return.
While Affleck does an outstanding job as the deadbeat spouse, it's Pike's restrained performance as Amy that really brings this alarming adaptation of the best-selling book to life.
Shrewdly directed by David Fincher, Gone Girl is a complex and cunning commentary on marriage, murder and media sensationalism.
Incidentally, doing interviews in your missing wife's clothing doesn't gain you public favor.
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