Loved Fincher's version

Rating: 9/10 (30 December 2011)

I watched this movie just the other night and was definitely a fan. Rooney Mara, Daniel Craig, Christopher Plummer, and the rest of the cast are all wonderful in this movie. The movie also looked beautiful, and was edited as well as it could be with considerations to the plot of the book. It was definitely a movie that was elevated by the performances and the direction of Fincher. The story is not a bad story mind you, just nothing groundbreaking or out of the ordinary for the genre. I must say it is likely to dark to garner any serious awards consideration, but I do firmly believe that Rooney Mara's performance was the best I saw by a female this year. She may not have physically embodied the role the way Naoomi Rapace did in the Swedish version, but I had no trouble believing her in the role, and it was definitely a complete transformation from anything she had done previously.
The story concerns itself with a great many things, and therefore is a longer film but I didn't feel that it wasted a moment. Once again if you are a fan of the original as well as the books I am sure you will be a fan of this.