Gone Baby Gone

Watched a couple weeks ago. Not bad, I liked the gritty heroism, the honesty. My biggest problem with this movie, other than its general weak impact on my life, was its reliance on moral dilemma in what for me was an obvious decision. To me, it never sold the option of leaving the kidnapped with the kidnapper. I'm not even sure that was a conflict for the protagonist. Yet it seemed the movie hinged a lot of its drama on that dilemma. It needed the tension of that plot twist, which was severely underwhelming given how straightforward the protagonist reacted, and how easy it was for me get on his bandwagon. Some movies are angled toward the ending the whole time. That works, if the ending delivers. Gone Baby Gone just didn't deliver the crushing cognitive dissonance it needed toward the end. I had zero problem dumping Michelle Monaghan.