Swedish actors Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist

Rating: Null/10 (29 March 2014)

Brilliant book I imagine because the original Swedish film is a wonderful though at times frightening work. However, the American version does a dreadful disservice to the author, Swedish film-makers and the wonderful main actors Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist. I can not allot the blame to Daniel Craig or Rooney Mara, the former who I much admire in the Bond films. However, the re-interpretation of the plot and the characters seemed to fall to a dreadful simplification that gave short-shrift to the complex characters and storyline of the book and left it limping. Couldn't have been more disappointed ... but it was Americanised and commercialised.