"Gone Girl" is based on a book, therefore, it is really the plot that is disturbing, and not so much the filmmaking or acting.
So, (wishing I had the 2 1/2 hours of my life back), the opening scene of “Gone Girl” is also the closing scene. A husband is lying on his bed (the camera angle from his focal point). As he strokes his wife’s blonde hair, he is wondering “What is she thinking?” “What have we done to each other?”
Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck), is an average guy with low ambitions. He married an uppity trust fund Harvard graduate who is well-known for her “Amazing Amy” books. He was working as a writer himself, until he got laid off. When his mother got sick, they moved back to his hometown in Missouri, and while Nick is happy to be home, Amy feels unwanted, and as if she could disappear without anyone even noticing.
On Nick and Amy's fifth wedding anniversary (wood), Nick returns to their home, and finds the glass coffee table turned upside down, the iron still hot, traces of blood on the molding, and Amy missing. He calls the police and when the detectives arrive, Nick answers their questions very nonchalantly and apathetically, almost as if he is relieved that she is missing. As Amy left note cards marked “Clue 1,” “Clue 2,” "Clue 3," around their house(s) for their 5th wedding anniversary, the husband, and the detectives are trying to piece the puzzle together. A diary citing marital problems, money problems, and infidelity are discovered, inevitably setting Nick up to look like the guilty party.
Will Nick get charged? Will they figure out who the murderer is? Is Amy even still alive? What was the motive?
Neil Patrick Harris, as the ex-boyfriend, who was still in love with Amy after all these years, was hysterical.
I found Amy to be very unlikeable.
This is my first bad review. One star.
If you enjoy a good murder mystery, "Sherlock" is much better!
One World Cinema
ABELLA Sharon 
