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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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- 2011
- David Fincher
- 151 mins
- 18
Summary
Crime thriller starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara. An embattled journalist teams up with a spiky computer hacker in the search for a missing young woman. But as they work on the 40-year-old case, secrets erupt from the past.
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A star rating of 4 out of 5.
Lucy Barrick
It's the story that just won't stop. Stieg Larsson's three novels were international bestsellers and spawned a successful Swedish film trilogy, with Noomi Rapace as computer hacker antiheroine Lisbeth Salander. Despite the familiarity of the material, director David Fincher manages to make this version feel fresh and surprising. This is largely thanks to Rooney Mara, whose Lisbeth is an otherworldly, damaged creature, although Daniel Craig gives a pleasantly restrained performance as disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist. The two are brought together when Blomkvist is hired by wealthy industrialist Henrik Vanger (a magnificent Christopher Plummer) to investigate the murder of his niece nearly 40 years ago. As the pair gets closer to the truth in the remote north of Sweden, they find their own lives in danger. Fincher really makes the story his own, concentrating on the themes of sex, sadism and power so common to his work: there's more than a touch of Se7en here. And Steven Zaillian's screenplay is superb, capturing the essence of the book in a pared-down script as sparse as the beautifully shot frozen landscape. Despite the occasionally ropey Swedish accents and an opening credits sequence that's like a gothic Bond movie, this is taut, gripping film-making, and it certainly won't be the last we hear of Lisbeth Salander.
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rolenameMikael BlomkvistDaniel CraigLisbeth SalanderRooney MaraHenrik VangerChristopher PlummerMartin VangerStellan SkarsgårdDirch FrodeSteven BerkoffErika BergerRobin WrightNils BjurmanYorick van WageningenAnita VangerJoely RichardsonCecilia VangerGeraldine JamesDragan ArmanskyGoran VisnjicDetective Inspector Gustaf MorellDonald SumpterYoung Henrik VangerJulian SandsPlagueTony WayYoung Gustaf MorellDavid DencikBirger VangerMartin JarvisDetective IsakssonAlan Dale (2)Miriam WuElodie YungChrister MalmJoel Kinnaman
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rolenameDirectorDavid Fincher
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Theatrical distributor
Sony Pictures
Released on
2011-12-23
Languages
English | Swedish
Guidance
Violence, sex scenes, nudity.
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DVD and Blu-ray
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