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Rating: 7/10 (29 January 2012)

Checked out the movie "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo," starring Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, and Christopher Plummer. When I first saw the previews with this movie I was very intrigued! I was like thinking to myself, "what is going on in this movie?" There's a cool looking girl with wild hair and tattoos all over the place. Plus the title of the movie is "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo." I thought it was one of the most intriguing movie titles I had ever heard. It just made me wonder. Then I remember looking at other titles like "The Girl That Kicked The Hornet's Nest" and "The Girl That Plays With Fire," and I was thinking, "is this a trilogy or something?" Then I find out its an international best selling trilogy novel! Even though I didn't see the other movies and I didn't read the novel I just had to look at this movie. It was wearing on me. I just had to know what all the excitement was about.
Now that that is out of the way, I honestly felt like the movie was okay. I didn't feel like it was one of the best films of the year and I felt a little confused...and empty. As far as twist goes this movie was kind of like dangling a carrot in front of a rabbit, but not quite letting the rabbit have the carrot. When it seemed like it was time for the rabbit to have the carrot, the carrot was still not delivered to him. Then what I felt like was an awesome climax was even a climax. There was still more to the story that wasn't bad, but they could have let Henrik be the one to give Mikael the evidence for the Wennerstrom case. I felt like there wasn't a need to show how Lisbeth got the evidence and eventually got him killed due to financial swapping. I understand she loved him and love will make you do some crazy things but he warned her and I thought the movie was suppose to be about solving a case that deal with a woman that was missing for 40 years.
Then the sub plot...I'm just going to call it Lisbeth versus Nils was questionable. I say questionable as far as, should this have even been in the movie. Its not about the gruesomeness of it at all, I just felt like there could have been a different sub plot of a different way to show that Lisbeth just has bad luck with things...
Okay, it is also important to keep in mind that there is a lot of dialogue in this movie. So there are going to be moments were you might get a little bored, but at the same time you have to pay attention to understand the little details and clues that are giving to you though out the film. Its also important to know that there are going to be some parts of this film that are going to be hard for the eye to see. There are some disturbing parts and gruesome parts in this film! So if you're not a fan of that, you might not want to watch this film. I say that because I know there are people that do not like to watch stuff like that.
I tell you what I do like about this film. I did like character Lisbeth(main female character) in this film. She was sharp, smart, different, cool looking, and interesting to watch though out the whole film. I will say it was interesting to see how she handles things and what her response would be to certain things that happened in the movie. I also like the fact that she got some revenge and you will know what I'm talking about once you watch the film. I also enjoyed the different feel of the movie too. This movie felt different for reasons I can't quite explain, but enjoyed.
I'm giving this film a 6.5 out of 10. This film is overrated to me, too much hype. There's no real twist in the movie. Plus I felt like there were things that could have been done different and things that didn't need to be in this film. I love different just like the rest of the world, but when you put in it movie form, the movie has to gel and be delivered properly.