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An engrossing and classically suspenseful story
The 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.
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.
You don't mess with Lisbeth Salander. And you'd do well not to miss her, either.
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.
full review at Movies for the Masses
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.
[W]hile the film offers silly fun for a while, its ultimate schizophrenia and self-seriousness become its undoing.
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