Good but not great

Rating: 6/10 (3 July 2011)

I have rated this film a six, and it was very close to being a five point five. I watched this straight after reading the book, which is quite wordy at over 400 pages long. I was slightly shocked to see that what the book takes over 130 pages to do, the film does in (first) five minutes. I was also very concerned that if I hadn't read the book, much of what I saw would be incomprehensible. It appeared to be a collection of set scenes from the book without allowing the story to flow from one scene to the other. I was expecting something .other. than a Biblically crazed sex attacker, with some money. I had an inkling who the Killer was, but also expected that Harriet would turn out to be Lizbet Salanders Mother in a Mental Home. It got the rating it did as it *was* a cut above a standard Hollywood potboiler. Expect to see it re-made with Morgan freeman as MB, Jodie Foster as Lizbet and making a lot more of the sex that was in the Book but not in the film.