'Gone Girl' Review: It's a creepy, unsettling ride!

🌟Gone Girl🌟Review🌟8.8/10🌟

As im binging on David Fincher's newest success I thought I would write a review on probably the only film I ever liked Ben Affleck in and one of Fincher's best, Gone Girl.

Director David Fincher's artful steady hand effortlessly guides GONE GIRL's transition from noir-ish page-turner to psychological thriller. It's a creepy, unsettling ride, testing audiences' loyalties and freaking them out a little, too, as they go to and fro. It's violent, yes, but judiciously so, except for one scene that pushes boundaries -- perhaps so viewers can feel the full impact, in full gruesomeness and terror, of what humans are truly capable of, even if they sometimes don't appear to be.

In any case, we're riveted -- and not just because the framing and pacing and pretty much everything else about the movie are inch-perfect (except for the last 10 minutes, which felt like a drag), but because the leads are so compelling. Critics have long grumbled about Affleck's impenetrability. No matter who he's playing, we don't quite fully know what he's all about. But here he's totally present, and we sense his panic and confusion, anger and derision. It's quite a cocktail. But really, the star is Pike. She is precise, engaging, and perplexing. Must see!