“Huh.” That is what I said at the end of Gone Girl. I couldn’t really believe that that was the end of the movie. Like many others who hadn’t read the novel of the same name by Gillian Flynn (who also wrote the screenplay), I was left speechless. Gone Girl is a well-made movie, but not really an enjoyable one.

The basic premise of the story is that Amy Dunne has gone missing and may be murdered. Her husband, Nick, is the main suspect. The mystery slowly covers the five year marriage of the two with flashbacks and the reading of Amy’s diary. The two sources prove not to be the most reliable narrators.

Amy (Rosamund Pike) and Nick (Ben Affleck) are both writers. Amy’s mother is the author of a string of “Amazing Amy” children’s books, which supposedly tell of the exploits of Amy’s life, but they are more or less an exaggeration of facts. Always the dutiful daughter, Amy goes along with her mother’s wished to promote her books, but she resents her for it as well.

On the morning of the Dunne’s 5^th wedding anniversary, Nick visits his bar that he co-owns with his sister Margo (Carrie Coon) and basically states how terrible his marriage is. When he goes home, he finds the glass coffee table in the living room is smashed and his wife is nowhere to be found. Detective Rhonda Boney (Kim Dickens) and Officer Jim Gilpin (Patrick Fugit) arrive to investigate the scene of the crime who find more questions than they find answers for. As it turns out, both Amy and Nick had their own hidden secrets and one by one, they get exposed to the light. Tyler Perry plays a high profile lawyer who doesn’t seem to care if Nick is guilty or not and Neil Patrick Harris plays an old flame of Amy’s, who appears to not have much significance to the story…at first.

The film is a great example of how one might try to bury the sins of their past never really works and how one little lie can lead to another and another and you end up with a whole web full of them.

Gone Girl is a long movie, but definitely one that grabs your attention. The story is pretty unbelievable, but that isn’t the problem with it. The movie is way too graphic, but not just in violence. The characters are fairly vulgar – do real people talk like that in real life? The “romance” scenes show too much as well. It appears that the filmmakers tried to see how far they could go with some scenes and still keep an “R” rating. Note to filmmakers: the audience isn’t stupid. We don’t need to see such graphic images and dialogues to understand the story.

The biggest problem with this film is that there is nobody to root for. They are all awful people pretending that they aren’t. By the end of the movie, you can’t help but think of better ways to end the story.