Gone Girl Review

Roger Ebert, a successful American film critic, journalist, and screenwriter wrote about an American psychological thriller, called Gone Girl. The movie was directed by David Fincher and adapted by Gillian Flynn’s bestseller. This review was written approximately a week after the premier, at the beginning of October, 2014 and published on his website. Egbert argues that Gone girl is undoubtedly a masterpiece and everyone who watches it will definitely have some sort of strong opinion about the movie.

To begin with, this is really a perceptive piece of writing for everyone who is interested in these kind of movies. The film critic raised many important issues and at the same time, he took special attention on not spoiling anything during the process. Firstly, Egbert stated his overall opinion about the film. According to him, this thriller was both ”art and entertainment”; however, he wrote that it felt like that the movie was fragmented. He had the feeling that there were like five different short movies strung together instead of one coherent film.

Then, he gave us a short synopsis without any concrete information that could ruin the ending and he achieved this by asking clever, ambiguous questions. After that, he used a parallel and likened this film to Basic Instinct, Fatal Attraction, and Presumed Innocence because of the explicit sex and violent scenes. Plus, all these movies have more or less the same mind-blowing construction. Basically, Egbert’s main argument was that even though this movie can be put into the wheelhouse of the above mentioned movies, it never crossed the line and remained a unique masterpiece.

Even though the language of this review is informal, it is still appropriate for a professional and detailed piece because he used many sophisticated words and expressions. It is very well organized and coherent, so that is why it is easy to follow and understand. It perfectly reflects Egbert’s individual and matchless writing style. Personally, I love nearly all of his reviews and I follow his work on a regular basis. Apart from loving the topic, I chose this one because he listed other great movies just to get a better idea of the style of this thriller.

To sum up, I would say that every part of this piece of writing is relevant and very well developed. He supported his arguments in connection with the movie and he stayed on the topic, so there were no illogical side drifts.  As a result of this, it gave the readers a very detailed and interesting insight, which I must say was a pleasure to read.