The original Swedish version of this has been sitting in my queue for ages. I read the book and was not impressed, but everybody kept talking about it like it was the greatest thing ever so I thought "maybe I'm missing something". I wasn't.
The opening titles were incredibly badass. Everything after that was all downhill I'm afraid. If it wasn't for the graphic rape and torture scenes, this movie would have been incalculably boring. With them, this movie was boring and disgusting. Rooney Mara does do a very good job of playing the brilliant-yet-damaged Lisbeth Salander and she deserves the nomination. Of course, I haven't seen any of the other contenders yet so it's hard to say whether she deserves to win.
Fresh off a recent libel conviction, disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) is made an offer of refuge in the north of Sweden by former industrialist tycoon Henrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer). Ostensibly, he is there to write Henrik's memoirs but he's really supposed to bring the old man a measure of peace by investigating the disappearance and probable murder of Henrik's great-niece, Harriet. During a summer vacation in 1966, Harriet vanished from the Vanger family island and was never seen again. And yet, every year, Henrik receives a pressed flower for his birthday-- something only Harriet would know about. Or her killer. Mikael must interview the disreputable Vanger family members, which include antisocial drunks and Nazis, to determine who killed 16-year-old Harriet but he needs help in the form of a research assistant. Enter Lisbeth Salander, a pierced, tattooed ward of the state with a host of personal problems but a genius with computers. Together, the two embark on the trail of a decades-cold serial killer.
The movie is very faithful to the book and by that I mean that I hated them both.
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