The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (18)

From a storytelling ppveerctise, this is a horrible trailer. It's just a series of quick-cuts that do nothing to give anyone an idea of what the movie is about. That approach is fine if they're only marketing the movie to people who have already read the book and know the story, but it's no good if their goal is to entice anyone else to see the movie. I'm sure some people will see it simply because Daniel Craig is in it, but star power can only carry a trailer so far. Plenty of people go to see movies because they saw the trailer on television and it made the movie seem interesting. This trailer doesn't make the movie look interesting. An edgy editing style and a remake of a Led Zeppelin song aren't enough. If I hadn't read the book, this trailer wouldn't convince me to see the movie at all. Maybe I'm just too picky because I'm a writer and I pay more attention to the story than to the other details.

Jafar, you have far too much time on your hands. Good film but not a classic.

Enjoyable but not as good as the Swedish version. Liked Daniel Craig but didnt connect with Rooney Mara as Lisbeth and I didnt find it as engrossing as the original.

I am watching the American version and it is so boring that I decided to write this comment. Where is the relationship between Lisbeth and Mikael? Where is the flow? What happened to the rape scene, To Lisbeth boy-like body, and to her personality? She is so disconnected and. . . scared.I couldn't keep my eyes off the screen in the Swedish version and I fell in love with Lisbeth, everything about her was perfect and intentional. In my opinion, only Hollywood fans can prefer this new version. Oh, one more thing, the mean guy is SO obvious here! I was shocked. I expected to prefer the Swedish version, because I like international films, but this is worse than I ever thought

Hated the score - intrusive and often badly placed.

Judged on its own merits, this is a pacy enjoyable thriller. Compared to the Swedish language film, it is shinier and less clunky. Craig is not as bland as Nyqvist and Mara is not so fierce as Rapace. I maintain that the book would have been better served by a tv series (it may yet arrive). Three and a half stars.

I agree with the reviewers overall assessment of the movie. And I agree with others dislike of the intense rape scene, there's an awful tendency to err on the side of being explicit in movies generally, when the violence could just as easily inferred. I stayed through the movie as a courtesy to my date, but had I been alone I would have left.

I was disappointed I founds the original film disappointing because the dubbing was poor and the actors amateur apart from Noomi Rapace and Armanski. I really thought the Hollywood version would be sensational and it was if anything more disappointing because even though many of the characters were better the central character Lisbeth was nowhere near as well portrayed by Rooney Mara who lacked the fire and passionate hatred that the book made obvious, and Noomi Rapace captured perfectly. Wast of money as the original fell short of the magnificent narrative of the book. I would recommend people read the book if they want to really get a gripping story as the cinema has failed to come anywhere close to what has to be one of the best thriller series of modern times

When I go the cinema, I want to see a good film, . . . . . and this is a good film, I don't want to see a purist adaptation of a novel which I haven't read and might never read. I don't accept the `iconic` status which feminists attach to Nooni Rapace's interpretion of Salander. Rooney Mara is just as good, and as some viewers have observed, she makes the role her own. I urge readers to ignore comments by looney feminists such as Mrs Gubbins and other critics who can't accept that mainstream cinema has produced a superior remake. Oh yes, Daniel Craig gives a great performance displaying a vulnerability that comes as a surprise after the OO7 films. I liked the Swedish version . . but , on the whole , this is better . . .

Don't listen to anybody who hasn't read all 3 books. You need to read the books to understand whats going on. Thank goodness I'd read the books so I could explain to my friend what was happening. On the whole a good film, but read the books.