***1/2 stars
Leave it to David Fincher to adapt the enormously popular Swedish book and films series by Stieg Larsson and Niels Arden Oplev into an electrifying American thriller. This is a film so well shot and edited your brain
will spin for hours after trying to decipher the speed and mastery of an almost
three hour film. Rooney Mara is electric as Lisbeth Salander, the dark and
mysterious hacker who goes through hell, only later to unleash it. She is need
of help from disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) as he is
hired to investigate the disappearance (or murder) of a young woman from over
40 years ago. While the mystery begins with her disappearance, there’s plenty
more to uncover. The duo becomes entangled in a web of corruption and
ruthlessness. The setting is cold and bleak, the locations dark and narrow, with many scenes shot at night or in troubled weather conditions. It only adds
to the chaos of the story as David Fincher directs a brutal, yet masterful thriller
that is guided with top notch performances from its cast (particularly Rooney
Mara, who steals every scene she is in) and the fantastic editing by Kirk Baxter
and Angus Wall. The film was marketed as “the feel bad movie of Christmas”. The
only way to feel bad about this movie…is to not see it.
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