Girl With A Dragon Tattoo

Director: David Fincher
Cast: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellen Stårsgard
Genre: Drama/Mystery 2011
Running Time: 158 mins.
Rating:★

Disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) accepts an invitation to surreptitiously a forty year old unsolved murder on behalf of the victim's uncle, Swedish industrialist, Henrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer). Meanwhile, tattooed hacker, Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara), hired to investigate Blomkvist, discovers the truth behind the conspiracy that led to his fall from grace. Thrown together by fate, the unlikely duo uncovers a secret history of murder and sexual abuse festering beneath the veneer of Sweden's industrial past all the while drawing closer to a quiet evil waiting to engulf them both. Based on the novel by Stieg Larsson.

This movie is shit!! It throws in cliché gothic-surreal visual that has nothing to do with the movie, but since it is "so cool", it makes you believe that it does. It just goes to show how idiotic the producers thinks the general movie-goers are, to agree to produce this garbage. "We can't produce anything original, so lets copy the Swedes, but yeah we can make it so much cooler. Plus no one likes to read subtitles anyway." The original Swedish version was brilliant and well thought out, period! The suspense and subtle clues of the mystery was perfectly executed. No, I've not read the trilogy, but I'm not stupid enough to ignore that the story and its characters are based in Sweden. However, this film version, hopes that you can ignore that all the actors are speaking in their native accent! The only actual Swede in the film is Stellen Stårsgard, which I find absolutely hilarious! I'm not saying that he's isn't an amazing actor, but the fact that he is the only Swede, in a Swedish based novel, with a bunch of Brits, is ridiculous! In case, you are too stupid to piece the clues or follow whats going on, the film continuously beats you over the head with its in dialogue and visuals. And oh yeah, lets film in the exactly locations as the original because no one will notice and those who will, will be persuaded that this film is a worth while see. Well to no avail, sorry!

The only thing good about this film is Christopher Plummer!