If you can't improve on brilliance why bother?

Rating: 6/10 (24 January 2012)

From the very Bondesque intro onwards I felt a sinking feeling...
Simply put, Fincher has tried to Hollywoodise a classic film and failed really quite horribly. Hate to think he'll be doing the other two a similar disservice.
I've read various reviews from Empire to magazines - who is paying them to give this 4 stars out of five? The plot is spoon fed so you know what's going to happen from a very early stage of the film, and who the main protagonist is. It's so blatant it's incredible the script got past the final draft.
Full of plot holes, the acting is lacklustre and the cinematography that people have been talking of is over rated I think.
It was really very predictable that this would be the outcome - I'm a massive fan of Fight Club and Se7en but Fincher didn't cut the mustard with this.
It's clearly been done for a North American market - OK fair enough - but when the original is so much better to remake it barely a year after its original release is madness.
Daniel Craig doesn't even attempt a Swedish accent making him seem totally out of place. The Salander character is made too confident and in the end it was hard to really care for her because there was no background information.
A seriously disappointing but expected Hollywood mutilation of a far better film by Niels Oplev.