My Movie Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
4/5
Opening Statement: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, is a foreign film that follows the story of a journalist who was just found guilty of libel by court and sentenced to 3 months in jail. He is given a job before he has to serve his sentence investigating a dark secret of a family that live on an island. Meanwhile during his research a female gothic computer hacker who is on probation watches his research and soon they start working together to solve the crime.
What's Good: The execution of the adaption was very well done. There is a lot of emotion flowing through this movie, but it never smoothers you, this film takes the cliche' mystery film and adds in a realistic yet peculiar darkness in it all. This film definitely has a graphic nature to it. It is violent, disturbing completely no-holds-barred to its realism. The mystery has you making guesses throughout the 2 and a half hour duration of the film, the acting is superb as well, never have I seen these actors on screen before, but I can't wait to see them again. Mystery with a side of dark sadistic personalities. This film is not for the faint of heart.
What's Bad: There were moments where the movie wasn't necessarily dragging, however some things weren't necessary. The moment when the film feels like it is ending, there is still a lot more to tell. Making it feel rushed toward the end. The thing I found most interesting about this movie was that it wanted to show the darkness in some people...this darkness has never been conveyd this way in the movie world, and I actually wish they would've done a little more with that. Just a litte. Because there is still plenty to go around.
Consensus: Not for the faint of heart, or for the person with a small attention span. But this is no doubt one of the best mystery thrillers of all time that I have seen, it is gritty, realistic, and ever so dark. See this movie...if you dare.
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