Failed remake.

Rating: 3/10 (17 November 2012)

Fincher has once again consistently failed to accomplish a credible work to my taste.
This time, given a bigger budget and the advantage of being able to analyze its Swedish predecessor, unfortunately does not make up for the still many faults in this movie. Although I come to understand the plot is more faithful to the novel, the poor editing and the awkward pace had only succeeded in messing up the flow of thought by the lead characters and their actions, subsequently, appeared distorted to the audience...thus giving the effect that some of the conclusions or deductions arrived at were abrupt and lacked ample reasoning, and some of the actions were nonsensical (because they happened too quickly or lacked proper follow-through), all of which were more clearly explained in Män som hatar kvinnor.
I am not even going to credit acting performances...yes they SHOULD be better than the 2009 version, given the fact that the actors have the privilege to improvise from the first movie, but aside from Mara who did a great job dramaticizing the role of the main character, the rest are just mehhhh.... Actions are so unrealistic and sometimes inconsistent. For example, the ending (which i understand is altered from the novel)...is she too dumb to not be aware of that?