I gave this a 6 but it really deserves a 4

Rating: 6/10 (10 January 2016)

To quote Abraham from the walking dead... "loose ends make my a.. itch." and this movie is no exception. To execute a perfect double jeopardy (flashback to the movie from yesterdecade) one would have to make sure that story and all the nuances are tied together. First there has to be a way to collaborate the plot line, then producers have to cross the t's and dot the i's.
If you look at a movie such as Predestination you will be met with inevitability of major plot holes that could not be left alone and so producers of that movie watched the cuts to and from until they got it right.
Gone girl... well there is a lot of gone and a lot of girl but girl is surely not gone. Gone is my patience when movie came to a screeching halt.
Beginning of the movie seemed slightly out of place. Here comes a scruffy looking guy standing over by the trash cans. Problem is that trashcans were not at the end of his driveway where they normally would be. No... they were up a 45 degree slope, over the 3ft stone wall conveniently placed in such a way to make a sweeping shot of the actor moving from starting position to his house. I should have known it then... that producers were not being careful.
And so they have this nearly perfectly executed story line until about 1 hour and 20 minutes into the movie, at which point it all turns sideways. They should have stopped then but no siree bob... they wanted to tell the other side of the story. And so they had this intelligent woman with a certain attention to detail befriend some questionable characters and her entire master plan falls through like a house of cards. And then we boomerang back to some filthy rich guy that comes back into her life and she turns from a mastermind into a murderer. Rest of the story just does not make sense.
And bear with me folks. It does not make sense because producers looked at the length of the movie and figured that they were already 2 hours into it... and figured they could wing it. Entire story of her return and supposed loose ends just did not tie into cleverness of the movie at all and the FBI and police just stood back like a bunch of buffoons acting like a clueless bobblehead even if story appeared even more ridiculous than the story of her murder.
To start off there were no injuries on her that would rectify the whole being hit with a blunt object to bleed profusely all over the kitchen. Then... who err... has a credit line of 117,000 smackaroos, especially if they are both unemployed and out of money? All the gifts were conveniently stacked in one place in a barn and knowing of the gifts neither husband nor the sister did anything to remove them from said barn even with ample amount of time. And then there is an issue of money. Completely broke... husband "hired" the lawyer who chargers ridiculous fees. And then there is a wife who is estranged and got what she wanted... a whole bloody mansion all to herself and a man that would worship her at her feet... but no she manufactures this thing about being continuously assaulted, even though it would appear in footage only once and I mean I can be at it all day... you know like saying that there was no evidence of hot stud muffing driving his car to her house or anything tying house murder scene to him but well.. the guy is dead... killed by a box cutter by a woman who was supposedly starved and tied up entire time.
If they had an alternative ending... that is to say they scrubbed a whole half an hour from the tail of the movie and gave it some good Agatha christy twist... this movie would have been a very respectable 8/10... instead I am giving it a 6 but really wanting to give it a 4 for sloppy writing.