Kinda over-hyped but worth one time watch for sure!

Rating: 6/10 (6 January 2012)

Well, for all the hoopla surrounding this title with book and multiple language remake, I watched the original version of The Girl with Dragon Tattoo. First the good part, Noomi Rapace is a standout performance basically due to her excellent subtle wildness, sexily dark and decent performance as the central character of the film (not necessarily).
There are few good scenes with the ones worth mentioning with disturbing and gripping tension between the lawyer and lisabeth along-with the climax where serial brutal murders and the psychology behind the motive is described by the killer.
Rest, I would say the brutality shown is uncalled for as it was just a way to forcefully make things more gripping which could have been done either ways by improving the screenplay and adding punch moments. Also, all the talk about the 'hacker' girl doing the stuff had no technical relevance imho for the film although its part of the story originally but it should have been more focused on the finer nuances.
Overall, do watch it for some sherlock holmes moment to unearth the mystery which is a result of excellent story.