1 Line Review: A must must must watch.
Disclaimer: This is a suspense thriller and I am NOT revealing any clues in this review. Please feel free to read ahead.
Yes, you saw it right. Its a 5 star rating. Could not have been anything else. Its a deadly cocktail of 5 star story and 5 star acting. Before anything I would like to confess that I bought the book almost 6 months back and read only 50 pages and got busy in life. If you follow my reading list you will know am not much into fiction, I only repent I should have read the book. FYI – A book paints a much awesome picture than what any movie can ever do. ‘The Wolf of Wall Street‘ is another such example. Thankfully I read the book and saw the movie. Ya, in that order.
Back to Gone Girl. As the title suggests, its a story of a girl who goes missing. And this girl AMY (played by Rosamund Pike) is Nick’s (Ben Affleck) wife. What really happened to her? Did someone kidnap her? Did Nick himself kill her? Did the marriage go bad?
Phew, the story take such interesting turns that I cannot tell you anything beyond this. Frankly, storyline makes or breaks a movie. This book written by the great Gillian Flynn will only make you think hard how these people can write such stuff! How can you think of such complex plots! I wish I had more imagination to write such beautiful suspense stories! 🙂
Ben Affleck is considered one of the best actors in the Hollywood and rightly so. Have you seen ‘ARGO‘? You better watch it if you have not, if you have already done it, you should watch it multiple times. I do that. He is a genius. This movie will go in my library of frequently watched movies.
Just so you know, ‘Gone Girl’ has been directed by David Fincher, the same person who gave us ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ (its a masterpiece, you should watch it), ‘Social Network’ (again an awesome movie) and the blockbuster ‘The curious Case of Benjamin Button’. David is a super director.
Every department in the movie gets a 5 star! Lets talk about the girl herself who goes missing! Rosamund Pike is a phenomenal actor. I remember her from ‘Die Another Day’ and ‘Jack Reacher’. Her acting in this movie is unparalleled. If I tell you any more, I will be dishonouring the disclaimer above! 🙂
Go watch this two and half hour epic. If you sit relaxed for even a minute during the entire movie duration, I will pay your ticket money back. Yup, that’s how good it is.
Bonus: You will get glimpses of Vidya Balan’s Kahaani and the Barney avatar from How I Met Your Mother, with his gadget laden house!
Let the awesomeness begin!