Zero Reason for Being

Rating: 4/10 (1 April 2012)

The IMDb rating for this is higher than the Swedish version? What a travesty. I admire Rooney Mara's very different portrayal, but this film is otherwise a sad shade of the remarkable first installment of the Swedish series. I pity the fool who thinks otherwise. Plot elements resonant with meaning in the original are here passed over or utterly dissociated. I'll not provide examples in this forum for fear of displaying too much information. Viewers can decide for themselves. I see nothing in this movie but greed. People can't be bothered to read subtitles? I suppose with a film of this popularity we can look forward to versions in all major languages. If it's released in Latin, I promise to go see it.