This thriller is surprisingly good. I did not particularly want to go because it was foreshadowed to include graphic violence, which it does include.
Gone Girl passes the key test of good thrillers, great thrillers. It is pointless watching this movie a second time because you know how it finishes and all the plot turns. The movie really grows on you and you don’t notice it is 149 minutes long. Not a scene is wasted.
Silence of the Lambs is a similar movie in the sense of it is pointless watching that movie the second time. Silence of the Lambs is plain boring if you try and watch it a second time .
Gone Girl is about the disappearance of Amy Dunne (Rosamund Pike) on her wedding anniversary, and the whodunit investigation that followed. Support cast is made up of unknowns who fill out their roles excellently.
Oddly enough, on the morning before going to the movie, I was thinking about who are the great actors and actresses.
The obvious is Meryl Streep to she dissolves into any role. You don’t remember the movies that Meryl Streep appeared in because she was such a part of the movie that you don’t remember the movie because Meryl Streep was in it.
Alec Guinness is another brilliant actor who dissolved into any role he was cast. Sean Penn is his modern match, although Penn spends too much time in art house movies trying to persuade you to like Fidel Castro and his philosophy and outlook on life.
When I was drawing up this list, Ben Affleck got a mention as someone who can just appear in the movie and you pay no attention to what his previous roles were or even remember what they were. Ben Affleck is rising actor these days
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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