Gone Baby Gone is the directorial debut by Ben Affleck oh and what a debut.
The film is this new version of film noir set in contemporary Boston where a little girl has gone missing.
It is based on the fourth novel by Dennis Lehane writer of Mystic River.
The girl's Aunt and Uncle come to PI Casey Affleck, who by the way does such a fantastic job of a man having both legs in two different worlds, and his partner/lady friend played by Michelle Monaghan (who is currently in Source Code) to find their niece.
The aforementioned two worlds are the normal, upright people of the world and the scum who deal in drugs and death for a living and make their community a shit hole. Affleck's character Patrick Kenzie seems to have belonged to the latter and only recently tried to make himself a better man. Which might explain his choice in the end of the film.
Kenzie and Gennaro partner up with two cops played by Ed Harris and John Ashton. I wont ruin any plot details here but things aren't all what that appear they be. They're better or worse. Depends on your point of view and moral code.
Amy Ryan plays the little girl's mother. You might recognise her as Holly Flax from The Office. I didn't.
She plays a pus of a person more interested in getting high, laid and drunk than the well being of her daughter. If anyone is a down right villain in this film I would call her it, you might say different and you could be right.
What you want from a good film is to have feelings and emotions about it and weeks later I am still thinking about the decisions of the characters and the outcome of the plot.
9 out of 10
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