Mikael Blomquist(Daniel Craig), a journalist just expensively convicted of slander takes a job to investigate a decades old murder case, taking on a hacker, Lisbeth Salender(Rooney Mara), the girl with the tat, as an assistant.
Whatever the American production team may like to say about this being a re-interpretation of the source novel thats rubbish. It's a cynical move by an American studio to bring in cash by REMAKING an already popular title in English. To claim re-interpretation you have to produce something significantly different from the former effort (reviewed previously). If anybody could find a different take, David Fincher would be a good bet. But no such luck. This is ostensibly the same film. A little more stylish in looks, a little less gripping in content. It just doesn't reach the claustrophobic tension of the Swedish version which is disappointing from the director of Fight Club and Seven.
His is a perfectly decent telling of he story, Craig and Mara both throwing in decent performances but I thought Noomi Rapace was better before and this really only stands to serve those who can't be bothered with sub-titles.
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