The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is an English language version of the Swedish film and is directed by David Fincher, the story here is that Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) is hired by an old man Henrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer) to solve a decades old murder mystery that involved a member of his family, meanwhile we meet Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara) a strong independent woman who hacks Blomkvist's laptop which leads him to her and the mystery begins.
I was really looking forward to seeing this as I do like Craig, Plummer and Mara as actors and it felt like the kind of film that I want to see, a proper grown up film with an adult sensibility, not something for 2-16 year olds that dominate just about every screen on the planet nowadays, no siree this one was for grownups and it had an intriguing story to it, with that how did I find it?
Well happy to say that I really enjoyed it, it was a great story, well told with some terrific performances, Mara is mesmerising as Lisbeth and carries the film very well, its hard to take your eyes off her as she goes about her business and in some scenes there is a sense of satisfaction as she gives the audience a payoff they’ve been waiting for.
But that’s not all, Craig is also very good as are Plummer, Stellan Skarsgard (one of my favourite actors), Steven Berkoff, Robin Wright and Joely Richardson all of whom also performed very well in their roles, Fincher was a good choice for director and he directs the film well, Jeff (son of Blade Runner DP Jordan) Cronenweth lit the film beautifully, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross did a great score and Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall did some great editing, highly deserving of their Oscar win.
Overall, probably one of my favourite films in a long time, was well worth the wait, 4 out of 5.
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