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| The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Photo: Columbia Pictures |
Taking on the success of the Swedish movie adaptions of the best-selling Millenuim triology, Hollywood now launches its own version of the $200 million worth franchise with The Social Network director David Fincher leading the way.
The first part in the series introduces us to the investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig), who comes under fire after publishing a libellous article and therefore takes on an autobiography writing job for a retired business magnate who promises to help the journalist in his libel case. Blomkvist soon finds himself investigating a family murder that occurred 36 years ago and have to take help from the prolific hacker Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara).
Those familiar with the book and the original movie knows that the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is not for the faint-hearted and the American adaption is certainly not an exception. Embrace yourself for a two and half hour of captivatingheart-racing unadulterated brick shitting. Helping you to get completely drawn into the thriller is the impeccable acting by Craig and Mara (already strongly tipped for an Oscar) as well as from Stellan Skarsgård and Christopher Plummer.
Despite the fact of having to cram in 500 plus pages into a movie, it still felt awfully long. After the murder case is cleared up we're led on to a seemingly never ending story closure with sub stories.
The Girl With Dragon Tattoo premieres on Dec 21 in Sweden and Dec 26 in the UK.
1 comments:
I'm thinking of going to see it. I haven't read the books nor have I seen the Swedish movies xD But I'm considering this one :P Don't know why but American movies have a tendency to be better than Swedish ones.
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