The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo-KICKS A$$!

Rating: 8/10 (23 April 2012)

I didn't get a chance to see this movie at the theater last year, so I did what most people do and wait until it came out on DVD. This film caught my interest right from the start, the acting was incredible, especially the performance by Rooney Mara. I had never heard of her until I saw her at this year's Oscar's, I think she or the film was up for an Academy Award. I heard of Stieg Larson, who wrote the book, but I heard his books skip around and are very long. So I decided to see the movie first. This was such a great film, U have an outcast, who is very intelligent who knows everything about computers, but has a very unusual style. She catches the eye of Daniel Craig, who is working a case and wants her help in case that goes back years. A case involving the brutal killings of women spanning years. The person responsible is a little predictable, but that's type casting and the only flaw I saw with the movie. I have to say in some of the scenes are disturbing, and didn't add much to the movie, even though the guy who was in charge of her finances deserved what he got. I'm no prude, but there are a few sexual scenes that didn't add much to the movie, Thank GOD they were quick. This movie has everything suspense, excitement to the end, and who done it , that to some the killer was predictable. In the end Mara and Craig make a great team and even though the killer went free for many year, justice does get served to him the end in this terrific thriller. THX, Kris L. Cockayne