Currently being remade in Hollywood

Rating: 9/10 (4 April 2010)

A pretty good adaptation of the excellent first book of a trilogy by Stieg Larsson it is entitled - "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" This Swedish film confusingly renamed as "Men Who Hate Women" is currently being remade in English in Hollywood, god knows what they will do with it.
There are rumours of George Clooney being cast in the Michael Blomqvist role, hopefully they will cast someone young and good such as Ellen Paige as Lizbeth Salander. Her character is so strong that it will require an appropriately young and talented actress to pull it off.
The film differs slightly in plot from the book but only in areas where it progresses the plot and increases the pace of the film.
Essentially the story is the same and the dark gripping plot is a refreshing change from those more conventional thriller mysteries that usually have boring two dimensional "who done it" detective type characters.
I thoroughly recommend this film as a stand alone entertainment experience, it slots into the trilogy as a description of the meeting and early collaboration between the two main characters.
The story of the trilogy as a whole centres on the Lisbeth Salander character, the three interlinked stories are full of rounded interesting depth-full characters who interact in a believable and sometimes uplifting way, it also has dark grim stories within the plot and nasty villains who all press Lisbeth Salanders buttons, sparking vengeful reactions that are unexpected and equally intriguing.
I recommend not only this film but also the two sequels and all three novels which are all of course packed with additional details.
Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Rapace are both excellent in their respective roles these films are unusual also in the respect that there are two leading heroic characters instead of just one.
If you like intelligent mystery thrillers you will really enjoy this.