Nice, but only marginal differences

Rating: 6/10 (22 January 2012)

A couple of years ago, I did hear the audio books (Stieg Larsson Trilogy) and those are some of the best thrillers I ever read (or heard). At that point in time, I thought, that it would be very complicated to make o movie out of this books, since there are awfully much parallel event chains and it would be hard to put that into an 2h movie.
The first try to make movies out of the books was a European venture, starring Michael Nyqvist tried it and partly failed. Those films are good, but hard to watch for all not familiar to the books. They try to tell everything and basically partly fail to do that.
When I learned, that a US production started, I had some hope, that the chain of events would be reduced. US movie makers know how to structure a script well. I went to the cinema and I found more or less a remake of the European movie. Sure, the cast is a bit better, but overall it is not a substantial gain. It is still very long, partly painful to watch (even for the younger girls), partly extremely violent and treating all parts of the book equally. It results like the first try in a movie who tries to explain everything, but not even achieving to tell the central story well.
No, I will not watch the sequels
Mick