Great Story, Bad Ending

Rating: 7/10 (3 October 2014)

I saw "Gone Girl", starring Ben Affleck-Argo, Daredevil; Rosamund Pike- Jack Reacher, Johnny English Reborn; Neil Patrick Harris-How I Met Your Mother_tv, Undercover Brother and Tyler Perry-all those Madea movies, Star Trek_2009.
This is based on a book that was written by Gillian Flynn. I have not read the book but this is a very good and suspenseful movie. My only problem is with the ending and I can not go into details here, without spoiling things. In fact, the whole movie keeps you guessing about who did what-and why-up until you find out exactly what is going on. Ben and Rosamund are a married couple that are coming up on their fifth wedding anniversary. Ben comes home to find his wife missing and signs of a struggle. He calls the police and things get interesting. Questions are asked by the police and the media-did Ben murder her, was she kidnapped? The story goes back and forth from the present time, where Rosalund is missing and everyone is looking for her, and then jumps to five years in the past, and how she met Ben and their life leading up to the present. Neil plays a former boyfriend of Rosamund's that shows up to help look for her and Tyler plays a lawyer that wants to defend Ben, in case he should need a good lawyer. Like I said, it is an excellent story, with plenty of twists and turns that will keep you guessing, but that ending? I remember hearing the disappointment, not only from myself but from other movie-goers when it was over and it was not a pretty sight. It is rated "R" for violence, language and sexual content-including nudity-and has a running time of 2 hours & 28 minutes. I enjoyed about 95% of the movie and I would probably buy it on DVD. Maybe the DVD will have an alternate ending.