Review of Gone Girl (2014) by 5Thstfreddie — 25 Dec 2014

I hereby support a constitutional amendment prohibiting ANYONE from comparing any film to "Hitchcock" unless Hitchcock directed it. The dialogue is so pretentious, the line deliveries so forced, the plot elements so preposterous that it's like watching a bad acting class.

There's no one in the film remotely interesting. I picked up the novel just to see if they had done the author an injustice, and was astonished that people rave about the book. Ugh: this is what movies have become? And this is great fiction? Pretentious, preposterous, and with a Lifetime Achievement Award for Bad Endings in a thriller, both book and film division.

Gillian Flynn is not Dashiell Hammett, she's Patricia Cornwell light, and the film is a lot more Brian DiPalma than it ever will be Hitchcock. At least it reinforces the notion that Ben Affleck is a far better director than actor.