Awesome,Cool,Hip,Detective Thriller. The Best Film Of This Kind Since 'Silence of the Lambs' And 'Manhunt'.

Rating: 8/10 (29 November 2010)

this film really does make you want to claim the old critical cliché, "top notch, stylish thriller", but that is a really good description of this movie. and boy was it entertaining.
Noomi Rapace was awesome as the heroine Lisbeth. great performance of a really cool and high charged character. i never got to read these books, i've heard about 'em and the impact they've had on readers, but i've never read one. the last book i read was 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' and that was practically a picture book. i don't usually read best sellers, if i do pick up a book, it's usually the classics. you know, Twain, Dickens or Virginia Woolf. but i'm sure readers of these books were right about them because this movie was entertaining and very involving.
the rape sequences were explicit and a little hard to take, but the brutality of the rape scenes is integral to the story development. i thought the scene where Lisbeth takes revenge and tattoo's the sadist who raped here was totally cool.
i can't say i thought this movie was as thoughtful as the 'Hannibal' movies, i mean neo Nazi's and brutality toward women is not new to me. i grew up with a feminist mother and a uncle that fought in WWII, so i've heard this stuff all my life. but i thought this movie was excellent, polished and slick commercial entertainment with a super cool heroine.
are they really going to make an American remake of these? that sounds F'N stupid. i mean why? these original films are just fine. but Hollywood never has an original idea these days.