The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2011
	Director: David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club, The Social Network)
	Actors: Daniel Craig (Skyfall, Cowboys vs. Aliens), Rooney Mara (The Social Network), Christopher Plummer (Starcrash, The Sound of Music, Up), Stellan Skarsgård (Pirates of the Carribean 2-3, Thor), Robin Wright (Forrest Gump)
	Country: N, S, USA
	Genre: Polar
	Conditions of visioning: 30.12.2012, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: After loosing a trial against a powerful magnate, the editor of a political newspaper (Craig) is hired by the head of a powerful family to investigate the dissapearance of his niece 40 years before. An outcast young female hacker (Mara) will team up with him.
Review: This remake by the nonetheless gifted David Fincher is as useless as the one of the excellent Infernal Affairs by Scorcese. The story is the same as in the original, some scenes even copied shot by shot, and only some sections are adapted to an American audience. All of this only to have known faces on the screen. Maybe it is because I saw the original a few weeks ago, but I was not convinced by neither the filmmaking nor the acting in the remake. It might be true that the lead actor Michael Nyquist was not very charismatic, but Daniel Craig is not much better. I had the feeling that the connection between some scenes is not very fluent, and follows more a receipe. In particular during the first half of the movie the parallel between the two stories (Craig and Mara) is not well done. The Girl from the title is well played by Rooney Mara, but not as well as Noomi Rapace in the original. On the good side, Fincher managed to efficiently reduce the length of the movie from three to two and a half hours, and remove the TV-film look the original sometimes had. But some ellipses make that we are less convinced by the motivation of the characters, while at the same time some things are over-explained while they were better left suggested as in the original.
Rating: 5 /10