The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a heart-pumping thriller that captures you in its grip of horror and intrigue until the final second.

Rating: 10/10 (17 April 2012)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a heart-pumping thriller that captures you in its grip of horror and intrigue until the final second.
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It is methodically calculating as it counts down to the discovery of the wolf in sheep's clothing. The cast is phenomenal. Rooney Mara (Lisbeth Salander) steals the show with her brilliant intellect, her seductive appeal, and her ruthless defense of the defenseless. She stands apart among a top cast in David Fincher's masterpiece. Daniel Craig (Mikael Blomkvist) plays an embattled journalist who has been tricked into trading in his credibility for a story. He is a great investigative journalist who has a vulnerable side.
The ageless Christopher Plummer (Henrik Vanger) is the wary, kind uncle (and former CEO of the family business) who has been searching for the murderer of his dear niece who vanished years before from the island Henrik and his family (and relatives) have occupied for decades. On the day of her murder only family members were present on the island, all of them together in one place, and no particular evidence pointing any one person in particular.
After the embarrassing imprisonment of Blomkvist after losing his libel case made against Hans-Eric Wennerström, a Swedish billionaire industrialist, his Millennium magazine is faltering and Blomkvist is approached by Henrik to investigate the murder of his niece, Harriet. Blomkvist takes a step down from Millennium with the promise of a hefty compensation and solid evidence against Wennerström if he can crack the cold case of Harriet's murder. He is welcomed to the family's isolated and frigid island, off the coast of Sweden.
Blomkvist interviews the remaining family members living on the island searching for clues. His investigation really heats up after he finds photographs of Harriet the morning of her murder in town attending a parade. He further ascertains that he needs access to the company's records in order to discover who the killer is. In order to comb the family business' archives, he hires Lisbeth Salander, a pierced, tattooed, goth computer hacker and private investigator, and the same young woman who investigated his past before Henrik hired him.
Blomkvist and Salander have a complicated relationship in the film, as partners, lovers, and confidants. As they research all of the details surrounding the murder, they discover that it isn't just Harriet who has been murdered but woman all over the country that have been marked as cold cases are cropping up with ties to Harriet and Harriet's family.
The rising action in the film builds enormous tension as Blomkvist pokes around somewhere he shouldn't be and Salander uncovers dark secrets of her own.
Director David Fincher does a remarkable job with the horrifying discovery of the perpetrator of the murders and then the character's realization of how deep they've gotten themselves. It is terrible and wonderful all at the same time.
The film has graphic sexual content which is not suitable for younger audiences or anyone sensitive to sexual content. It is persistent throughout the film.
My Score – Overall Rating: 9.75 out of 10 Plot: 9 out of 10 Character Development: 10 out of 10 Acting: 10 out of 10 Audio/Visuals: 10 out of 10