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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Review
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first of the vastly successful (Over a million copies sold in the UK alone) Millenuim trilogy to hit the big screen. Written by the late Stiig Larsson and journalist who went into writing. He died before he saw the success that they have now become.
Mikael Blomkvist is a reporter for th investigative magazine Millenium who has just lost a case against a powerful business tycoon after printing a story about him that has been proved to be false and now facing a 6 month jail term , believes he has been set up. He decides that it would be best if he stepped down from the editorial team of Millenium to save them anymore adverse publicity. He has a few weeks before he has to start his entrance and is offered a job by ghjufu the mysterious patriarch of the Vagner corporation who believes that his granddaughter Harriet Vagner disappearance is due to one of his other family members. He asks Mikael to follow up on the information and evidence that they have on his granddaughters disappearance over 40 years ago. Reluctantly he agrees and starts to look into the case. He stumbles across a few leads that the police investigation missed and this leads to more head scratching and more clues.
He then receives a mysterious email from an anonymous source helping him with a vital piece of evidence. He tracks the sender down to be a computer hacker called Lisbeth Salander who was part of the team that was employed to research him and provide evidence for the case that has seen him soon to be locked up. He invites her to help him with the case but as they get closer to the truth the Wagner family start to close ranks as family secrets start to come out and they certainly don’t want everyone knowing the truth..
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is Sweden’s answer to Silence of the Lambs, with secrets, bluffs and double bluffs galore. The plot is thick and cleverly layered, it just grabs you by the neck and slams you up against the wall and doesn’t let up until the final credits. With a run time to match (Just short of 3 hours) And the film being in Swedish there’s an awful lot of subtitles to read, but don’t be put off by this, in fact it can actually help you understand what is going on a whole lot better.
The acting is fantastic and the film conveys the belief that everyone involved has in the project. The visuals are simple but effective and for once the film pulls no punches (Especially in Lisbeth's retribution to her Parole officer) which probably wouldn’t have happened had thi s film been controlled by the bigwigs in Hollywood.
An absolute barnstormer of a crime thriller, unmissable and unshakeable, if the sequels (Which have already been made) are anything like this, then you are in for one hell of a ride. Sure to make a star out Noomi Rapace who plays Lisbeth. Lets just hope that Hollywood don’t mess up the inevitable US remakes.
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