This Girl Will Thrill You ****

Rating: 10/10 (21 July 2012)

What's all the fuss about Rooney Mara receiving an Oscar nomination here. She was all right, but winner Meryl Streep for "The Iron Lady," and fellow nominee Viola Davis, "The Help" were both far better.
That being said, the film is excellent.
Christopher Plummer is again with the Nazis. This must have taken him back to his "The Sound of Music Days." Ironically, Plummer isn't a Nazi here, but he comes from some family, with 2 members who were Hitler people.
Daniel Craig is good as the sued journalist hired by Plummer to find out what exactly happened to his niece four decades before. Mara, who is made up like the devil, takes bitter revenge on the bank person who wants sexual favors for her to get more than her monthly allowance. What she does to him is worth the price of admission to the film.
It is engaging what Mara helps Craig uncover regarding the niece. The ending is an absolute shocker, well done and something you wouldn't expect.