The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 173
Fresh: 148 | Rotten: 25
Its graphic violence and sprawling length will prove too much for some viewers to take, but Noomi Rapace's gripping performance makes The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo an unforgettable viewing experience.
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 33 | Rotten: 5
Its graphic violence and sprawling length will prove too much for some viewers to take, but Noomi Rapace's gripping performance makes The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo an unforgettable viewing experience.
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A discredited journalist and a mysterious computer hacker discover that even the wealthiest families have skeletons in their closets while working to solve the mystery of a 40-year-old murder. Inspired by late author Stieg Larsson's successful trilogy of books, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo gets under way as Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander are briefed in the disappearance of Harriet Vanger, whose uncle suspects she may have been killed by a member of their own family. The deeper Mikael
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Cast
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Michael Nyqvist
Mikael Blomkvist -
Noomi Rapace
Lisbeth Salander -
Lena Endre
Erika Berger -
Sven-Bertil Taube
Henrik Vanger -
Peter Haber
Martin Vanger -
Peter Andersson
Nils Bjurman -
Marika Lagercrantz
Cecilia Vanger -
Ingvar Hirdwall
Dirch Frode -
Björn Granath
Gustav Morell -
Ewa Fröling
Harriet Vanger -
Per Oscarsson
Holger Palmgren -
Michalis Koutsogiannakis
Dragan Armanskij -
Annika Hallin
Annika Giannini -
Sofia Ledarp
Malin Eriksson -
Tomas Köhler
Plauge -
David Dencik
Janne Dahlman -
Stefan Sauk
Hans-Erik Wennerstrom -
Gösta Bredefeldt
Harald Vanger -
Fredrik Ohlsson
Gunnar Brannlund -
Jacob Ericksson
Christer Malm -
Gunnel Lindblom
Isabella Vanger -
Reuben Sallmander
Enrico Giannini -
Yasmine Garbi
Mimmi Wu -
Margareta Stone
Birgit Falk -
Christian Fiedler
Otto Falk -
Gyorgi Staykov
Alexander Zalachenko -
Nina Norén
Agneta Salander -
Emil Almén
Polis i Dalarna -
Louise Ryme
Receptionist -
Pale Olofsson
Domare -
Mikael Rahm
Bildredaktor -
Willie Andréason
Birger Vanger -
Jan Mybrand
Ekonomichef -
Lennart R. Svensson
Polisman i skogen -
Carl Oscar Törnros
Huliganer -
Kalled Mustonen
Huliganer -
Henrik Knutsson
Huliganer -
Barbro Enberg
Ã?ldre dam, Äldre dam, ... -
Ola Wallinder
Miltontekniker -
Alexandra Pascalidou
Kvinnlig TV Reporter -
Siewert ??holm
Programledare -
Tehilla Blad
Ung Lisbeth -
Laura Lind
Jennie Giannini -
Isabella Isacson
Monica Giannini -
Richard Franc
Gottfried Vanger -
Magnus Stenius
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All Critics (173) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (152) | Rotten (25) | DVD (6)
An engrossing and classically suspenseful story
Top CriticThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a handsome thriller, anchored by an arresting performance in the title role by Noomi Rapace.
A chilling detective tale, a horrific sexual abuse drama and an overlong, emotional, tie-up-every-loose-end melodrama that is sure to be half an hour shorter when Hollywood remakes it without Swedish dialogue and probably without the cool Swedish edge.
Rapace's haunting, enigmatic Lisbeth is the element that leaves you eager for the next two installments. She's fantastic, and so is the movie.
A bracing survey course on the mystery genre set in a Scandinavian landscape as cold as a killer's kiss.
Appreciation of the film relies more on the performances than the problem-solving, and Rapace delivers a complicated and deliciously contrary performance that tattoos Lisbeth Salander straight onto the brain.
A clever story of murder and mystery interspersed with various acts of cyber-crime and corporate intrigue, it's the most refreshing thriller in recent memory.
David Fincher's reputation as the best modern American director is further reinforced by a strong DVD transfer of this, his latest, most underappreciated masterwork.
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The "Millennium" completist doesn't need to be told to pick this up, but would be well advised to understand that the set contains the TV version of the trilogy.
The final result is an adaptation that's just about as successful as its literary predecessor, with the film occasionally exceeding the book in a few areas...
... The rare film that lives up to the hype preceding it.
So exquisitely crafted and the final result is a good treat for anyone who enjoys the journey of movies.
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.
La película es básicamente un buen ejemplo de cine comercial bien hecho, con algunos brillos formales y buen elenco que, de paso, permite sacar por un momento la cabeza más allá de las colinas de Hollywood.
Witless, suit-and-tie porn posing as Great Art.
Stieg Larsson's ... millions of fans [were] waiting to pounce on any missteps ... Fortunately, director Niels Arden Oplev has got things right.
Do people love the original book so much they're willing to forgive a film that is sorely lacking in substance, motivation, action, tension, ambiguity and style?
Graphic sexual violence in thrilling subtitled crime drama.
Usprkos toga to je Larsson i kod nas ario i palio po knjiarama, hrvatski distributeri dosad nisu imali razumijevanja za vedsku trilogiju
It's really quite ingenious in a rather basic way.
Very few murder mysteries are as dark as this one. Fortunately, there is also some light in this movie to offset all that darkness.
An overlong, gestating, and sadistic version of a Murder She Wrote episode, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is all hype, confusing shocking imagery for thrilling storytelling.
Met with much success throughout the world, and one must wonder if its rather old-fashioned mystery feel had something to do with it.
Fans of the book have been disappointed in this workmanlike adaptation, but coming to it with no expectations it is quite involving...
It's not surprising David Fincher has put his hand up for the remake, as the subject material is right up his alley, a la Seven and Zodiac but an English-language remake seems so pointless (as usual) given the quality here.
Audience Reviews for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Where Fincher has clearly a vision and ability to create somehting vsiually and atmospherically unique with his film, Oplev's instead is much more workman-like. Same goes for the performance of Noomi Rapace who is by no means a great actress but does manage to make her Lisbeth Salander a that interesting character here. Instead under Fincher's direction actress Rooney Mara turned into full-blown angel of vengeance with truly wounded soul. Mara was something of a revelation in her role and managed to create one of the most iconic characters on celluloid in past thirty years.
Larsson's source material is very good and serves a delicious detective story with interesting characters, but the biggest problem here is Oplev's ability to turn it a film that actually works. Everything here feels like lame episode of crime-series. Oplev's direction lacks visual rawness which this story most certainly needs and what FIncher in the end so perfectly captured.
So instead waching this version of Larsson's book, go and see David Fincher's masterpiece with same name. That film is a perfect mix of suspense, character study and visually breathtaking art. Forget this Swedish adaptation.
Super Reviewer
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- Lisbeth Salander: He's a evil motherfucker that hates women!
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- Mikael Blomkvist: I would have never done it, Lisbeth. But I understand why you did. I don't know what you have experienced. But I was about to die in that cellar, and you saved my life. Whatever you have seen, you don't need to tell me. I'm just happy that you're here.
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- Lisbeth Salander: I've never done this before. Hold still, or it'll get messy.
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October 27, 2010:
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Foreign Titles
- Verblendung (DE)
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Man som hatar kvinnor) (UK)
A 40 year old murder is attempted to be solved by a disgraced journalist and steampunk hacker.