Movie Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

What could happen when one of the best directors working right now takes one of the best fictional stories in the last 25 years? The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the product of such a fantasy. David Fincher does what he knows best with making movies with serial killers in them (Zodiac, Se7en) and capitalizes off of it in Dragon Tattoo. With puzzle pieces like old photographs, maps, and detailed reports, Fincher also never spoon feeds the audience with information. He allows them to figure out the puzzle along with the characters. Rooney Mara’s Lisbeth Salander steals the movie in the best of ways and is what most will say makes the movie. The chemistry between Daniel Craig’s Mikael Blomkvist and Mara’s Salander shines the movie that was already shining. It’s pure magic.
As a Fincher fan, one could tell that he was a little more tight around the edges of this film and that’s probably because it’s a best selling novel. Not saying that he hasn’t done a movie adaptation before, but with those authors he could collaborate with. Unfortunately the late author Stieg Larsson will never see his work on the big screen that will make audiences cower, laugh, love, and hate all within one scene.