Slow moving boring movie with some porn thrown in

Rating: 5/10 (9 January 2012)

I've never read the books or knew about the Swedish movie versions so I had no idea what this movie was about only that Daniel Craig and Christopher Plummer were in it. It moved very slowly and was quite boring as it fleshed out the characters .One particularly nasty scene of anal rape left me thinking what else can they do and before long the rapist himself gets stripped naked ,violated anally, painfully tattooed and beaten. OK now I get it ,this movie is dark violent and masochistic. One particularly unbalanced violent girl and a man who is hired to find out about a missing girl from 40 yrs ago come together and we have some unpleasant sex and violence along the way. Most of this movie is quite boring and quite frankly a waste of time. It takes a good hour or so before the 2 main protagonists even meet and by then I was yawning. The actress who plays Lisbeth I will say is amazing -for a really dark disturbing character she nails it even if the movie itself is crappy. She is smart and doesn't take crap from anyone ,a shame her character is not given much to do for the second half of the movie. I did not like the ending either ,it is abrupt and leaves you wondering about that 9 bucks you gave away to the theater cashier. I hope Rooney Mara gets nominated for something as she is the only thing good about this movie in a really underwritten role. Her performance is a 9/10 while the movie itself is a 2/10 .