The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
February 24th 2010 02:09
BASED on the acclaimed novel by late Swedish author Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a cleverly constructed murder mystery that keeps the viewer guessing.
While waiting to serve a dubious prison sentence for libel against a powerful businessman, investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) is contacted by Henrik Vanger (Sven-Bertil Taube), the patriarch of a wealthy industrialist family. Impressed by Blomkvist’s tenacity, Vanger employs the disgraced journo to try and solve the 40-year-old disappearance of his favourite niece. Vanger is convinced one of his unsavoury relatives – three of which were Nazis – murdered her on the family’s private island, but the girl’s body was never found. When Blomkvist enlists the help of a wild, tattooed computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace), everything starts to fall into place, and a much larger conspiracy begins to reveal itself, putting the pair in mortal danger.
The film includes some intense – and disturbing – sexual scenes involving the troubled Salander, but they’re just background to the intriguing whodunit at the heart of the thriller.
While waiting to serve a dubious prison sentence for libel against a powerful businessman, investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) is contacted by Henrik Vanger (Sven-Bertil Taube), the patriarch of a wealthy industrialist family. Impressed by Blomkvist’s tenacity, Vanger employs the disgraced journo to try and solve the 40-year-old disappearance of his favourite niece. Vanger is convinced one of his unsavoury relatives – three of which were Nazis – murdered her on the family’s private island, but the girl’s body was never found. When Blomkvist enlists the help of a wild, tattooed computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace), everything starts to fall into place, and a much larger conspiracy begins to reveal itself, putting the pair in mortal danger.
The film includes some intense – and disturbing – sexual scenes involving the troubled Salander, but they’re just background to the intriguing whodunit at the heart of the thriller.
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