Opening Music was the best part

Rating: 2/10 (3 January 2012)

Excessively long. Could have been 60 minutes shorter and not lost much of the story. I liked the lighting, and the costumes/clothing were right on target. The acting performance of the girl with the dragon tattoo was good. However, the development of her character and many other supporting roles were excessively OVER-developed. The carving was too much and added nothing, as were the 4 or 5 interactions with 'the pig'. The film was more focused setting an agenda then telling a a better story. The technology and budget were there, as was a desire to include an excessive amount of purposefully pandering details that added nothing to the storyline, but trying to appease small audience groups made the film too long and caused the final product to fall far short of the what it could have been. Given his work on Seven, I expected more, but will not be paying for this director's films anymore.