The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
The first film in the American three-picture adaptation of Stieg Larsson's The Millennium Trilogy. Stars Daniel Craig (Casino Royale) and Rooney Mara (The Social Network), directed by David Fincher (The Social Network, Fight Club).
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Craig), ostensibly hired to write the memoirs of Henrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer), recruits badass, troubled computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Mara) to help investigate the 40-year-old murder of Harriet Vanger - Henrik's beloved niece. The odd couple work to unravel the mysterious and gruesome history of the Vanger clan, who live on the isolated Hedeby Island in Hedestad.
Larsson's thrillers have sold 50 million copies in 46 countries, originally made into a film trilogy in the novel's native Sweden.
Winner of Best Editing, Academy Awards 2012.
2011Rating: MA15+159 minsUSA, Sweden, UK, GermanyEnglish
Thriller
- Director:
- David Fincher ('The Social Network', 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', 'Zodiac', 'Panic Room', 'Se7en', 'Fight Club')
- Writer:
- Steven Zaillian
- Cast:
- Daniel CraigRooney MaraChristopher PlummerStellan SkarsgårdSteven BerkoffRobin WrightYorick Van WageningenJoely Richardson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) / Reviews
Variety
A fastidiously grim pulp entertainment that plays like a first-class train ride through progressively bleaker circles of hell.
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A controlled, mesmerising, beautiful thriller scarred by scenes of unshakeable brutality and breathless tension.
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The Guardian
It is a muscular, overwhelmingly confident movie – and its brutal violence is thus even tougher to take.
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Hollywood Reporter
Fine American version of the literary sensation delivers everything except that something extra.
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