Gone Girl is probably not the movie you expect to see when you enter the hall. You are hoping for a suspense thriller kind of a movie which will probably have couple of highlights - a persistent detective and a good plot. Gone Girl has a third wheel to it - a brilliant psychotic villain, which takes this movie to a different level all together.
Let me stop at this point and ask you to consider these three movies -The Shining, Psycho, Prisoners. While the first 2 are well known horror (and I don't mean the spooky ones here), Prisoners is probably added as the last one because of one simple reason - the horror which a seemingly regular guy can cause, is far more than a platoon of evil spirits from the 'The Ring' can ever do. Gone Girl has been tagged as - mystery and thriller on IMDB, I strongly feel it should also be tagged as horror as well. However I leave that for the viewers to judge for themselves.
Director David Fincher is well known for delivering several masterpiece such as - Fight club, Zodiac, Seven etc and he doesn't disappoint us here as well. Acting is superb and so is the overall story telling style. Best part however I feel is the way various characters have been developed through the movie. Fury also got released this weekend, however I feel Gone Girl might have just stolen then the thunder away from this Brad Pitt Starrer war movie ( though I do intend to catch it sometime this week).
IMDB rating : 8.5
My rating : 9.5
