Still not the book, but a bit better...

Rating: 7/10 (25 January 2012)

I know it is always difficult to be faithful to the book, but I viewed it on the basis that if I hadn't read the plot, would I have understood everything. Both my wife and I agreed that it was difficult to follow on that basis.
I do give it credit for being better than the Swedish version which was raved about at the time, but I'm afraid that that one was even more confusing.
In the Swedish version it did not explore enough the relationship being built up with Lisbeth and Mikael.
I felt the US version was better with the casting, and I found Lisbeth very believable in this version, and truer to the book. Daniel Craig was a good casting too.
I feel that I need to watch the Swedish version again to reacquaint myself.
I suppose that the books were simply too good.