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Show all (5)The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first film in Columbia Pictures' three-picture adaptation of Stieg Larsson's literary blockbuster The Millennium Trilogy. Directed by David Fincher and starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, the film is based on the first novel in the trilogy, which altogether have sold 50 million copies in 46 countries and become a worldwide phenomenon.
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David Fincher's adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo takes no prisoners and pauses for no slowpokes who haven't gotten around to reading Stieg Larsson's bestselling book. In a series of tense, rapid-fire scenes, Fincher plunges us into a contemporary Sweden where men are perpetually committing violence upon women, and from which there seems to be no escape.
Beautifully photographed by Jeff Cronenweth, who also shot Fincher's The Social Network, and who here employs a color palette of murky whites, shadowy browns and icy blues, the movie is bold, scary and unexpectedly erotic -- in short, it's about the best adaptation possible of Larsson's absorbing but fundamentally loopy novel. That it never quite rises to the level of art is hardly Fincher's fault. After all, a story whose central character is a tattooed, pierced, bisexual computer hacker with a photographic memory can only be taken so seriously. (Full review)