12 Giant Plot-Holes You Didn't Notice In 2014's Biggest Movies

3. The Disappearing Pregnancy - Gone Girl

The pleasure of Gone Girl is clearly in the awful, under-the-fingernails pressure of how the plot unfolds, and Rosamund Pike's spell-binding, horrifying performance as the woman scorned (though her motives seem iffy at best). It's all about a feeling, and as such you could probably forgive some issues with story-telling or mistakes. But the fact is, Gone Girl's central logic is utterly flawed: Amy is supposed to be lauded as an arch-villain, conniving and brilliant whose plan is air-tight and thus there's no way Nick will ever be able to escape his life with her, so he just sort of accepts it. But when you pick at the key points of her escape from Desi, it all falls apart, and requires massive incompetence from a police force who were clearly over-achieving in their investigation up to that point. For instance, why wouldn't the hospital who tested her for signs of rape to corroborate her story have noticed that she hadn't recently been pregnant or miscarried? Surely that would have been enough to ask questions about her story.