The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first film in Columbia Pictures' three-picture adaptation of Stieg Larsson's literary blockbuster The Millennium Trilogy. Such characters are often effective, but they sometimes seem on loan from other films. The dynamic between Craig and Mara in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is so sensational, it instantly propels the movie beyond glossy, high-toned pulp into something far more affecting.
She smokes to quiet her racing heart. When Mikael Blomkvist moves to Hedeby Island to carry out his work for Henrik, there are moments when we witness him doing mundane tasks. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO is definitely not a movie for the faint of heart, it's a movie that would rattle your comfort cage, and I think audiences will be divided, you'll either truly love it, or truly detest it, but there will hardly be a middle ground.
With Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgård. Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander, a young computer hacker. Dragon Tattoo is from the beginning far more about it's hero's than it's villains which is a pleasant change. It's dark and dismal and beautiful and human and everything a crime film should be. Stieg Larsson's Girl With The Dragon Tattoo trilogy caused a stir when it was first released in Sweden. Similarly, as anyone familiar with the book series can attest, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is not a simple murder-mystery that features damaged but ultimately cheery characters.
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All in all, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a good film and worth a visit. But do yourself a real favor and watch the original Swedish version before, after or instead of this one. Full Review The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movie reviews & Metacritic score: Based on Stieg Larsson's posthumously published crime thriller trilogy, "The Millennium Series." The book describes the mystery surrounding the long-unsolved di.
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO is a riveting mystery thriller from Sweden, but contains some extreme lewd content and very strong violence. Based on three novels by the late leftist journalist Stieg Larsson, the movie follows a leftist reporter named Mikael, who's been hired by a rich elderly man to find the man's beloved Christian niece. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo can be seen simply as an edgy—really edgy—crime thriller. But you don't have to dig too deeply to sense that the story's original creator, Swedish author Stieg Larsson, was also trying to make a statement about the plight of abused women.