As a connioseur of the film noir femme fatale genre, I enjoyed Gone Girl a great deal. It draws on a long tradition from Double Indemnity to The Last Seduction and various others. Gillian Flynn's screenplay is also deliberately satirical, in terms of playing with the genre tropes (which have always been melodramatic and exaggerated), as well as gender stereotypes, the American media, and how easily they manipulate their gullible audiences by pandering to their prejudices.

In adapting her own novel, Flynn said she made it deliberately funnier on the big screen. I definitely share her twisted, dark sense of humour. David Fincher directs very well, and Rosamund Pike is superb in this film. Destined to be remember as one of the great screen femme fatales, I'd say.