Sunday, January 15, 2012

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011)

Starring: Daniel Craig & Rooney Mara
Rating: 3 1/2 out of 5 stars

Does the international sensation The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo live up to all the hype? In my estimation, no! There is no denying that the story is amazing. The book may be amazing, and the original Swedish version of the film might be equally amazing, but David Fincher's adaptation of it is not. From the very beginning it seems as thou he's trying to turn this story into something it's not, a sequel to Seven. The story is fantastic, however, there are so many odd names and so many mumbled lines thrown at you so quickly, that you're easily confused. At many points in this film I was confused, and even when the killer was revealed, my reaction was "which one is that?" Besides being confusing, the film has about an hour of footage that has nothing to do with the main story and just adds to the overall confusion of the film. Like I said, the story is really good, the actors were really good also, but the film was just very long and confusing, and to be honest, I really wasn't all that impressed by it.

1 comment:

  1. i didn't have that reaction when the killer was reveled and i don't thing there was an hour worth of unnecessary footage maybe 30-45 mins of unnecessary but movie was great if you watch it again you prob understand it a lot more

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