David Fincher’s “Gone Girl” film adaptation takes a look at marriage and how well couples know their partners before committing themselves to each other for eternity.
On her fifth wedding anniversary, Amy Dunne (Rosamund Pike) goes missing and all the evidence points to her husband Nick (Ben Affleck). Their marriage is soon exposed and scrutinized by the media, revealing secrets Amy and Nick never wanted to come to light.
Check out what critics have to say about the film below. “Gone Girl” is out in theaters now.
The Chicago Tribune gives the film 3.5 out of 5 stars:
“I am getting a bit sick of Fincher's patented mustard-yellow palette, but the fact that it's on my mind indicates how many different ways this director controls our responses. There is no moral to ‘Gone Girl,’ though the more paranoid and reactionary among us may take it as a validation of their attitudes toward women. I think Flynn's working on a higher level than that though. This is a black comedy about true love, as some people define it, and Fincher turned out to be the right cinematic conduit.”
The Washington Post gives the film 2 out of 4 stars:
“Fincher’s somber, exacting tone leeches the diabolical humor that would have given ‘Gone Girl’ much-needed satirical juice. With few exceptions (often by way of Coon’s tartly revelatory portrayal of the acid-tongued Margo), the film plays even the story’s most darkly funny passages tensely straight, ending up less a parodic pageant of fame whoredom, image manipulation and pseudo-feminist, have-it-all rhetoric than a conventionally pessimistic — and, by the way, very talky — thriller.”
Rotten Tomatoes audience viewers certified the film fresh with 93 percent fresh rating:
“David Fincher has crafted yet another sleek, disturbing film that is highly engaging and seductive. Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck put on provocative performances that are truly electrifying. I went into it having read two-thirds of Gillian Flynn's book and worrying that my interest in finishing it would dissipate….I found myself holding my breath a couple times through the slow builds of the movie, underscored by Trent Reznor's suspenseful contribution,” one user wrote.
