The adaptation of Gone Girl is finally out and the quest for a real 2014 grown-up movie is finally over. I’m not big on reading fiction novels, but I very much enjoyed Gone Girl and have been impatiently awaiting the release of the motion picture.
I have to admit being a little disappointed – while Ben Affleck manages to give life to the character of Nick Dunne, Rosamund Pike’s performance is well below what I was expecting. Amy is lacking a lot of substance and credibility – people in the audience laughed at what should have been the most dramatic scene of the movie.
Some aspects of the book are fairly well rendered – the love progressively dying between Amy and Nick, the ambiguity of Nick’s character – while others seem to have just been dismissed, if only to fit into a screenplay that ends up being shallower than the book. So, go read the book instead.
As far as grown-up drama movies go, Gone Girl is good, but it is lagging well behind its 2013 predecessor: Prisoners