Lady bashers are gonna love this one and feminists will go hoarse about how in fact she was driven to do this and that. Irrespective, Gone Girl is a slick, entertaining cat-and-mouse game that will stay long in memory. The performances are top notch and I thought Carrie Coon as Margo, Nick's twin sister, stood out. Ben and Rosamund were outstanding with the latter really pulling up a surprise after being seen in so many action flicks like Die Another Day, Johnny English, Wrath of the Titans etc. Even my parents and in-laws enjoyed this.
The scene is set in a sleepy town in Missouri where the pretty, polished, smart Amy Dunne (Rosamund Pike) lives with her indifferent but equally pretty husband Nick (Ben Affleck). We are told that it is the couple's 5th anniversary, and that Amy has gone missing.
Amy, as it turns out, is the lead of a series of stories for kids written by her parents, and the disappearance of this archetypical America's Sweetheart causes the kind of media frenzy that lends itself to the kind of ironic rapaciousness that sets the tone for the rest of the film. Nick, as is perhaps inevitable, is ....