I will be honest with you guys at the beginning of this movie I thought this girl was not attractive at all...Two hours later, she was hotter than Angelina Jolie ...this movie is visual Beer Goggles!
The Girl With the
Dragon Tattoo
I will be the first to admit that movies based on novels are a tired recent cast. They have been a marketing ploy to sell terrible movies to a hopeful fan base (I'm talking to you, Twilight saga).I will also be the first to admit that movies based on novels also have the potential to be the best movies of all time. Why? Because Novels contain three to five hundred pages of great content. That wealth of information and popularity can be both a problem and a potential goldmine. It is very rare to see an almost perfect translation from the page to the silver screen and I am here to take a bite out of a very popular film. Is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo a great translation, or is it overrated?
Cast and Crew
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo stars Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara as Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Sandler. The film is directed by David Fincher, the director of Se7ven (great film) , Fight Club, The Social Network, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. That is a pretty damn fine resume' (claps for David Fincher). Well, let's start talking about the movie.
The Story
Mikael Blomkvist is introduced as a Journalist that is in the middle of a nasty public issue. He is hired by a mysterious wealthy man to investigate events that are taking place in the family. Regardless of Mikael's bad reputation, the man trusts him because of the help of a strange girl that is considered, remarkable. In the first ten minutes of the film you know that something big is going to be revealed and you are looking into a pretty heavy mystery involving this girl and this Journalist that are bound to meet. I will not give you any more of the story because it is worth observing on your own. Which is why I gave you the video above. What I can say is that the story is a very fine and detailed translation of the book. There are details left out which I believe were intentional for the next movie but this is by far one of the best paper to film translations if not the best translation since The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
The Performances
Daniel Craig is just a good mystery movie actor. In one of his less popular movies, Dream House, Craig was in a position where he had to investigate strange happenings and I have to admit the mystery movie role suits him and I would hope to see him in a other mystery movies in the future. My only gripe with Craig's performance was his blank face, he shows no real emotion when placed in situations that would normally elicit stronger emotion. his Michael reacted to these stressful situations like ...like James Bond would, unfortunately Michael is no bond and Craig needed to be more Michael in this movie. The only reason I say this is a gripe is because Craig still did a stellar job. His performance just stood out because there were others that just blew me away watching this film. Rooney absolutely steals the show in her role as Lisbeth Sandler. This woman was the embodiment of a woman with a past as troubling as the woman in these books.
Does it do the Trick?
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is a mystery movie and yes it does the trick. It is very capable of keeping the viewer guessing about some aspects of this mystery. I do feel the Director assumed that the audience already read the book because one thing was really obvious. I won't talk about it because I don't want to ruin the story but there is something about the stuck out so much and I was really hoping I would be surprised at the end and unfortunately I wasn't. However, while something like that would hurt many movies, it did not hurt this one. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was an excellent film all together. I am just going to jump right into the rating.
The Rating
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a movie with
multiple Ratings, this movie was
Delicious
This movie had a perfect balance of emotion, suspense, and even action
The Set up made you invested in the characters and their cause
it was also a :
Delicacy
There are some very intense and heavy scenes that
could cause some people to walk away
the movie needs and audience with a mind that is
ready with some serious mental and visual discipline, but I implore you to
give this a watch even if you cannot take scenes that are hard to watch because
This movie is also :
Nutritious
While some visuals are intense, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is a film that
is good for you to watch. This movie takes a stab at showing a woman
play a role that is often hyper sexualized or desexualized because of her character model
and her morals. This was an out of the box representation that there is a need for
much much more in American Film. There are some clichés that the direction and writing
plays into but for the most part female leads and female representation in this level is has not been
on par with this performance in nearly 20 years.
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