Men who give pigs a bad name

Rating: 8/10 (21 April 2010)

Noomi Rapace plays Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I don't know why she has it or where she got it, because the US version of the film is only 152 minutes. Perhaps it is in the Swedish version at 180 minutes or for sure it must be in the book.
If you don't know from the US title you are seeing "Men Who Hate Women" you sure find out fast. One guy is a sadistic rapist pig and he isn't the worst of the lot.
Art imitates life when Lisbeth takes a golf club to a guy and his SUV. Like Tiger Wood's wife, if you are into punk this girl is a nineteen. That's a ten with a nine iron.
At 152 minutes there is plenty of time for story and back story to explain almost everything. Still there are holes that you can drive a truck through and you have to wonder why the police hadn't solved the old murder cases with the evidence there for the two super sleuths to patiently uncover.
The movie is dark and it looks on the dark dreary side with color that is just enough off to make the white snow blueish. The score is often loud and warns of foreboding. It's a film that makes you appreciate the genius of Hitchcock and the scores of Bernard Herman.
If murder, rape, incest, mutilation and graphic violence is your idea of a good time at the movies you will not be disappointed. See it on an empty stomach. Every family has skeletons in the closet but this group could fill the haunted mansion.