Review of Gone Girl

Gone Girl (2014)
6/10
Overrated but Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck shine
2 January 2021
Starts off well but by the middle third, significant plot holes are already appearing and the final third just collapses into utter nonsense.

Rosamund Pike and, surprisingly, Ben Affleck excel in their roles, with Pike delivering a pitch-perfect portrayal of narcissistic personality disorder (as anyone who's encountered such a person can attest to). The sister and the detective are also completely convincingly portrayed.

Neil Patrick Harris is woefully miscast and delivers an appallingly bad performance - a humourless Barney Stinson, basically. Tyler Perry's performance is paint by numbers, and I've no idea why people praise such unremarkable acting.
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