Rating: 3/5

Three-Word Summary: Good riddance girl

And I thought Ex Machina was creepy. Gone Girl takes the manipulative female antagonist to the next level.

Gone Girl is what happens when an lazy chauvinist marries a brilliant lunatic.

This is the situation of Nick and Amy Dunne, a dysfunctional couple in Missouri.

The situation becomes far more dysfunctional when Amy suddenly disappears and all of the clues conveniently point to her husband as the apparent killer.

But things are never that simple. Naturally, Amy has faked her own death and is framing her husband for her fake murder. Her reasons for doing so are far more insane than that.

Certainly, Nick was having an affair with one of his college students. But his real crime, in Amy’s eyes, was not being ambitions enough or worth her time.

As Nick struggles to fight the charges and the sudden media circus surrounding the case, he begins to discover just how truly crazy his wife was.

The film was predictable up to a point and then took a sharp turn towards unbelievable. It’s equal parts entertaining and shocking.

Made in the same vein as several previous Ben Affleck thrillers such as Gone Baby Gone, Gone Girl leaves the audience both amazed and unnerved. Perhaps this is because you’re not sure who the good guy is, or even if there is one.