Quick Review: Gone Baby Gone: Directed by Ben Affleck. Starring: Casey Affleck, and Morgan Freeman.3/25/2015 Gone Baby Gone is a special treat of a crime drama. It's a potboiler or what is usually a mystery that's kind of trashy,and hinges itself on twists. Think Gone Girl. That's a perfect example of how these things can be good. This is a better one. The simple thing that makes Gone Baby Gone a perfect experience is that it's not confusing,and shockingly effective. That's all you want from one of these movies. Casey Affleck stars in his brother Ben's directorial debut. He,and some others are all hired to look for a little girl who has disappeared. Affleck and the others near the beginning of the film seem to not fit in to it,but as they slowly sink into the thick atmosphere the film creates it all comes together. It of course helps that film comes with some shocking action scenes. There's an incredible sequence near the mid point of the movie where Affleck has to gun down a couple of people in a house, and then encounters a horrific image. This should be jarring,but the film plays the action as scary. This gives the scene a crazy gut punch that is both unnerving,and intense. And that's not even the biggest surprise of all. I told you these films hinge on twists, on the curtain they keep down until the pull it out from in front of you. Gone Baby Gone has a scarier twist then even that fight scene suddenly taking a thrilling warp from being a by the numbers detective movie to a critique on whether or not the right thing to do is always the best option especially when it comes to a little girl. This film is left me fascinated,and completely surprised. This is great work. I give Gone Baby Gone a 9.5 out of 10. Reviewed by Stephen Tronicek.
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