The Vidiot Reviews...

Rating: 8/10 (8 July 2010)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
For her sake, I hope the girl in question went with an image of a dragon and not a Chinese character of the word, because then they'd have to change this film's title to The Girl with the Supermarket Love Shoe Tattoo.
Unfortunately, this thriller isn't about a white girl who refuses to do her research before getting inked, it is, however, about an inked white girl who does too much research.
When disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) is hired to solve the 40-year- old mystery surrounding the disappearance of Harriet Vanger, he realizes that all of his suspects are related to her. Meanwhile, a cyberpunk computer hacker (Noomi Rapace) with a keen interest in the case begins e-mailing Mikael pertinent information. Making an effective team, the unlikely pair soon begins solving additional murders that help to further implicate the Vanger family.
Rank with kindred carnality, Nazis affectations and corkscrew twists, this adaptation of a Swedish novel–the first in a trilogy–is a rich and sadistic whodunit.
And while a tattooed investigator seems unprofessional, face it: with Generation Y taking over the workforce we're bound to see plenty more doctors, lawyers and teachers sporting lower-back tattoos and pierced scrotums. (Green Light)