Read the Book !

Rating: 6/10 (25 August 2010)

This movie is based on thriller. So there is very little to be done make it captivating. I am not going to comment like an expert on the technical aspects of the movie but all that I would like to say is that the book is far more engrossing than the movie.
I hated it that they twisted and truncated the plot in so many ways. Consequently, the film has major continuity issues. Who are the characters? Why do they come into play? All this is so fuzzy !
The most interesting part of watching a mystery is, to me at least, the way the detective goes about unraveling the mystery. The book does this brilliantly, almost at a real time pace, which makes it a bit too fat, but the movie shows none of that. Lisbeth does not crack the code of the verses. She does not match the photographs to note that the guy wearing blue sweater is Martin in the pictures. Also, Anita Vanger (the real one) is not dead in the novel and locating Harriet is not as simple as a Google search of Anita Vanger.
I am just so mad for them butchering up the novel. They should stop trying to cram any length novel into a film. Lay off people.