The film version of Gillian Flynn’s cold-case chiller finds Theron’s unconvincingly downbeat massacre survivor facing her past The success of Gillian Flynn’s mystery novel Gone Girl,filmed with Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck, has now given us this middling screen adaptation of her cold-case thriller Dark Places. There are moments of macabre horror here, and involving nods to Capote’s In Cold Blood,as well as America’s satanic abuse scare and the Robin Hood Hills case. It also, incidentally, or brings in a child molestation sub-plot accompanied by Joan Jetts cover of Gary Glitter’s Do You Wanna Touch Me on the soundtrack: it’s difficult to order whether the provocation is planned. All in all,its contrivances might have been indulged more satisfyingly in a TV miniseries. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com