A great mystery

Rating: 10/10 (12 July 2010)

I am a fan of really good mystery films, and this one is no exception. A story of a man who is debunked as a fake journalist spends his specific days trying to find a murderer who killed or supposedly killed a woman who was to become a heir to a family fortune. Through misguided leads Mikeal (journalist) is hired by a wealthy man named Henrick Vanger. An aged old man who needs his help to solve a crime in his family which then propels him into a more sinister past of the large estate. He finds with the help of a girl with a dragon tattoo, clues to murders that date as far back as thirty years, but the murders themselves are race driven crimes. Seeing new clues emerge Mikeal and Lisbeth (Tattoo girl) go on a cross country trek to find the sealing clues to one mans fate. Yet in the clue finding, Mikeal becomes an unwitting participant in the ritual of how to kill someone and get away with it. But Lisbeth comes to his rescue and thwarts the murderer (Gottfried) and then gives chase to the madman. This held every element of dark crime, great mystery story, leads that seemed to come to a dead end, yet finds new light. The emotional baggage that Lisbeth held herself would have made a new story altogether, but both give this film a great hoist with some romance, regret, sadness, and forgiveness. A wonderful tale that fits the thriller category.