The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is a 2009 Swedish film adaptation of the novel of the same name by the late Swedish author/journalist Stieg Larsson, the first book in his Millennium Trilogy, directed by Niels Arden Oplev. The film was released in the United States on March 19, 2010 by Music Box Films, which is also planning to release the second and third films in the trilogy, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, later in 2010.
The Plot: Forty years prior, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, ruthless computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from almost forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history.
I have not read the book so I can’t comment on the differences between the book and movie but the story is well told in the film with very few unnecessary segments or plotlines. The storytelling is concise and engaging and the acting is superb, especially Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander. Rapace’s performance alone make the film worth watching and extremely difficult to take your eyes off the screen.
The film is 152 minutes long with English sub-titles, however the acting and cinematography hold your attention to the story and the plot is never boring. The film is Reated R in the United States for disturbing violent content including rape, grisly images, sexual material, nudity and language which it certainly has, however it never seems gratuitous and does not take away from the story as is often the case.
This is the most interesting and enjoyable film I've seen in quite some time. If you have any interest at all in the story, don’t wait for the English adaptation to release in 2011, see this film.
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