Ridiculous

Rating: 1/10 (12 June 2009)

I watched this movie with my brother about 10 days ago at the cinema. I didn't have any expectations. I hadn't read the book, and I hadn't heard anything about the film, except for the title several times. After seeing the movie, me and my brother talked about it while going home. We agreed totally on our opinions: It was a poor crime story, full of clichés and OK acting, but nothing more.
The story actually reminded me a bit about the story in The DaVinci Code. Two people, one middle-aged man and a far younger woman, a murder case with religious elements in it, things that happened a long time ago that are suddenly and mysteriously revealed during the movie, etc etc.
This movie was full of clichés, and the story about Lisbeth and her sponsor (or whatever he was), didn't have anything to do with the rest of the story. It was just an isolated story put into the book/movie to show another "man who hates women". The scenes with them that was supposed to be disturbing (blowjob scene, rape scene), was not disturbing enough at all, and in the end she gets her revenge anyways, without anything more happening to further ticken the plot, or play a part later on in the movie, so there's really no point to this isolated story, if you ask me. Just a meaningless story written for the audience to love, because the little girl actually gets her revenge this time. Yay!.. It's just so typically mainstream-shallow.
When it comes to the the rest of the story, that is, the main story, I don't know how much I wanna dig into the details etc, so I'll just keep it simple and sweet: It was shallow as mentioned. It was full of the typical crime/detective/mystery murder case clichés, plus, of course, the stereotypes. You have this Lisbeth character for example, who's supposed to be young, conflicted, unhappy, maybe a bit traumatized, cold or closed or whatever, but very intelligent (which is not so unusual or unrealistic for persons which fit this kind of description). What I thought was so unrealistic and stereotyped, was that she was able to work as hard as she did, and put up such a good fight to whoever she ran into (or whoever ran into her), and the whole character was just supposed to be observed by the viewer, as someone you don't fully understand, someone that makes you think, whatever. I don't know, but I just thought the whole character portrait failed, partly because of her acting, but mostly because of the character itself.
There's a lot of other things I could mention, like the murderer himself and how ridiculously unoriginal that whole thing was, but I'll just end it now before this gets too long..
-Totally clichéd and predictable story. -OK acting, but somewhat weak at times. -Stereotypes that are easy to read and understand, even though you're not supposed to understand them. -Obviously meant for the mainstream audience, especially for those in their mid-40's to mid-60's.
I'm seriously giving this movie 1 out of 10 stars, and take my advice if you've seen good movies before and know how to watch a movie: STAY AWAY FROM THIS ONE!...