The fact Hollywood only took 2 years to release its remake of Stig Larsen's runaway worldwide bestselling novel - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - speaks volumes about both the book and the original 2009 Swedish film. Directed by Niels Arden Oplev, the film follows the search by investigative reporter Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) into the disappearance of a 16-year-old girl named Harriet - a member of a very powerful Swedish corporate family - in the 1960's. Hired by the girl's uncle Henrick Vanger (Sven-Bertil Taube) forty years on, Blomkvist is aided by a fine young lass with, you guessed it, a dragon tattoo and panache for internet and online hacking, Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace). Together they begin to unravel what is a neatly tied mystery involving cults and Nazis and some very sick family members. The film is an excellent whodunit and the forced and unbelievable love connection between the two main characters aside, is well worth watching.
My rating 8 out of 10.
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