Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Sorry, this movie sucks

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

When the boy of a very wealthy businessman, who wasn't interested in his father's job, meets and falls for a lovely woman, they buy a house and start to live their lives as ordinary people, but his father's influence will change their lives much sooner than anyone would expect. Haunted by his past, his life, especially along his beloved, will prove to be a difficult one, often making him to make radical decisions. We follow the relation of the two, along with its troubles until her mysterious disappearance and the trial that follows many years later.It's a movie inspired by real life events which seems to be like a biography of David Marks, presenting in detail his disturbed life and the events which result from his decisions. It's plot, although quite predictable and somewhat linear, even for somebody who doesn't have any idea about the real events on which it's based, can be "seen" from two distinct points of view. You either take it as a biography, which has to present the events as close as it can to the reality, fact which I believe it does really good, or as a normal movie which presents a strange but predictable course of events which ultimately aren't able to captivate the viewer.It does have good actors and some interesting characters, even an unique way of telling its story, alternating events and inserting pieces of David's trial, but it doesn't manage to keep the viewer's interest. You don't get to care about the characters, you're simply a spectator to a couple of events, which you kind of guess before they happen, thus the result is not satisfying at all. The characters also have tendency to make radical decisions which decisively affect the outcome of the story, but not in a good way. Towards the end, it even becomes awkward, making you wonder why you're still watching. It simply isn't a good watch, to put it simple.Overall, I have to say that I was disappointed with this movie, due to its very slow pace, lack of generated interest, but ultimately its predictability. It simply isn't ok to watch a movie where you know the answer to all the key moments, especially when you're not affected one bit by the fate of the characters. It just isn't able to attract the viewer and make him enjoy the time he watches.

Ryan Gosling is one of my favorite actors, no matter if he is in a romance, drama, or comedy. This particular movie starts out as a love story as the couple gets married, move in together, and start their own business. Their fairy-tale beginning twists into an abusive relationship. Kirsten Dunst's character finds out that her husband has anger issues and he takes his anger out on her. The director includes a variety of shots to capture the suspense throughout the movie. He uses a lot of close-ups to show detail and facial expressions. The director also includes non-diegetic sound to intensify certain scary scenes. The movie also starts with Ryan Gosling in court, being questioned about the murder of the characters later in the movie.The director chose to show what happened in addition to how the character told his side of the story, depicting his lies. In the movie, the shots go back-and-forth between the past and what is portrayed as the present. The shots and music exaggerate the thrill of the movie as it is almost as if the story is uncovering a mystery. I love mystery type movies because of the building suspense that keeps you on the edge of your seat, curious as to what will happen next, and that is what this movie achieves.

(44%) One of those perfectly fine films that somehow still only amounts to a lot of effort put into a story that by the end simply isn't really worth it. There's at times a TV movie of the week feel to this; although it's a decent quality TV movie with plenty of period detail and a strong leading roles. Gosling's character is a very hard character to get behind, and that's even before he becomes overly shady. There are some twists and turns to the story, and by the end Gosling's character's behaviour is very odd adding some much needed interest, but it just isn't enough to make this a small step up from ordinary and forgettable.

Good material is wasted in "All Good Things", a crime drama by Andrew Jarecki, the director responsible for the remarkable "Capturing the Friedmans".Like "Capturing the Friedmans", "All Good Things" delves into the life of a creepy family. They're the Marks, a band of real estate tycoons whose lives descend into crime and scandal. At the heart of these scandals is David Marks (Ryan Gosling), a weird kid whose been emotionally scarred by both his mother's death and his domineering father. In an effort to escape the violent playgrounds of the super-wealthy, David marries Katie McCarthy (Kirsten Dunst), a working-class girl, but to no avail. He's slowly sucked backed into his father's inner sanctum.Despite fine performances by Gosling and Dunst, "All Good Things" is mostly inept. The film is shapeless, David Marks remains a cipher and the film's attempts at Hitchcockian horror/weirdness clash oddly with what is otherwise a straight-faced docudrama. The film was based on the life of Robert Durst. The heir to a New York real estate dynasty, and possibly a serial killer, Durst's wife mysteriously disappeared in 1982. Jarecki's film mostly gets wrong the causes and mannerisms of real-world Dursts.6/10 – Worth one viewing. See Jean-Xavier de Lestrade's "Death on the Staircase".