Gone Baby Gone

Gone Baby Gone is a film about a little girl who goes missing and the people who try to find her. This is Ben Affleck's directorial debut and it is extremely promising. The story is complicated and nearly treated with the care such a story needs. Important, difficult questions are asked, and in the end we are left to ponder them. Too many movies try to have a bright side or a happy ending but Gone Baby Gone fearlessly presents life with no easy answers. The lead performance by Casey Affleck is good, maybe very good, but not great. As his wife and partner, Michelle Monaghan is boring and out of place in almost every scene. Ed Harris is excellent and Morgan Freeman does his thing. The film loses it's way a couple times but Ben gets it back on track, especially at the end. Gone Baby Gone isn't perfect, but it's a serious movie with serious themes worth checking out, and it may revive Ben Affleck's career.