 I've been driving around for the better half of an hour trying to decide whether or not Gone Girl Gone is worth the praise it's been given. It's currently at around 8.8 on IMDb and around 90% on Rot Tomatoes. It's also done by my favorite director David Fincher whose previous works included The Game, Seven, Fight Club, Panic Room, Zodiac. So this guy's done some amazing films, even later ones like Social Network and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo were handled very well. The cinematography was of course wonderful, David Fincher is a keen eye for what shots are going to be just perfect to set the tone of the scene. Ben Affleck did a good job as Nick Dunn, Neil Patrick Harris had a nice small role, but Rosamond Pike, as Amy Dunn, was of course the highlight. I was pleasantly surprised with Tyler Perry too as the lawyer, it's nice and refreshing to see him not dressed up as an old angry woman or ruining shows on TBS. So the director is wonderful, the actors are awesome, it's shot beautifully, so what's the problem? Well the problem is, it's two and a half hours long, it should have been condensed to about two hours and the last half hour, what the fuck happened? Let's throw up a spoiler, let's throw up a spoiler. This movie's a 10 for me all the way to the last half hour, it is just building up momentum, it keeps you on the edge of your seat, you're entertained, you want to know what the hell's going to happen. At one point you're rooting for Ben Affleck's character, so this thing's constantly burning on all cylinders, it's a 10 from beginning to that two hour mark for me. I'm on the edge of my seat, I'm excited, I have no idea where this thing's going. At first you're rooting for this woman, she's suffered, she's in an abusive relationship and you're even thinking, this chick is awesome, she set up this elaborate way to get her douchebag husband thrown in jail and even killed. Then you realize that she's full of shit, none of this happened and it's all in this fake journal, it's all this elaborate lie, it's brilliant how it's playing off the social commentary, how it plays off media in general, how they can take a story and totally spin it depending on what they think at the time or their own hidden agendas or whatnot and that's exactly how this film plays out. You are just like that dumbass townsperson who's watching the news and you're like, that son of a bitch needs to burn in hell and then you watch the news a day or two later and you're like, this guy's a saint but right around the point where she gets robbed, loses pretty much everything, has to call up her convenience stalker who's a multi-millionaire, possibly a billionaire by the looks of his house, she goes to stay with him and then a second elaborate story comes into effect, she murders him, frames him for rape, goes back to her husband and then frames him a second time with pregnancy and that's where I was just, I was out. It's like, come on, have one of them win, don't put it in this awkward middle ground that's setting up the Avengers 2 we're gonna have to wait to see how he gets out of this which I'm sure we never will, I'm sure that's the point is you don't really know the outcome but it's fine if you have the bad guy win fully, it's fine if you have the good guy win fully but don't hit me in the fucking middle. So it was this two and a half hour build up that really just fizzled out with the I'm pregnant reveal and I don't know, I didn't do it for me there, I'm sorry. So I'll probably get you for this, that's fine, it's getting 10s all over the place, people love it, they praise it, they adore it, I just was wanting something different I guess it didn't tickle my dick the way I thought it was going to, I'm going to rate this begrudgingly a 7.5 out of 10, I still think you should see it, obviously it's doing really well, yeah until next time I guess, hoping for something a little bit more crazy from Fincher in the future.