The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
R
7.5
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2009

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152m

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Summary

Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece

Director

Niels Arden Oplev

Novel

Stieg Larsson

Screenplay

Nikolaj Arcel

Screenplay

Rasmus Heisterberg

Script Editor

Jenny Gilbertsson

Script Editor

Camilla Ahlgren

Script Editor

Sigrid Strohmann

Script Editor

Eva Svenstedt Ward

Reviews

narrator56

narrator56

December 5, 2021

9

Oddly, the version of this movie I watched contained both English subtitles and dubbing, and after a while I wished I could turn off the dubbing and go with just the subtitles, so that their mouths would always move at the right times.

I watched the U.S. production of this with Daniel Craig many years ago, and I liked it, but I don’t remember it clearly enough to compare the two. My f=general impression, though, is that this original is better.

Of course, the Lisbeth character is the real hero here. A rough childhood and beyond have molded her into a tough lady indeed, mentally, physically and emotionally. Oddly enough, she is the only character who seems to show any growth by the end of the film, perhaps partly due to her having so much room to grow emotionally.

Media

Status:

Released

Original Language:

Swedish

Budget:

$13,000,000.00

Revenue:

$109,421,911.00

Keywords

journalist
island
bondage
rape
strong woman
hacker
based on novel or book
nazi
blow job
antisocial personality disorder
female protagonist
whodunit
newspaper man
millennium
female empowerment
locked room mystery
girl with piercings
woman murder