The first film in the American three-picture adaptation of Stieg Larsson's The Millennium Trilogy. Stars Daniel Craig (Casino Royale) and Rooney Mara...
The first film in the American three-picture adaptation of Stieg Larsson's The Millennium Trilogy. Stars Daniel Craig (Casino Royale) and Rooney Mara (The Social Network), directed by David Fincher (The Social Network, Fight Club).
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Craig), ostensibly hired to write the memoirs of Henrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer), recruits badass, troubled computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Mara) to help investigate the 40-year-old murder of Harriet Vanger - Henrik's beloved niece. The odd couple work to unravel the mysterious and gruesome history of the Vanger clan, who live on the isolated Hedeby Island in Hedestad.
Larsson's thrillers have sold 50 million copies in 46 countries, originally made into a film trilogy in the novel's native Sweden.
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86 %259 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
86 %119,665 reviewsAudience score rating
"Leaner, meaner, more high-powered, stylish, and deftly directed."
Village Voice"A fastidiously grim pulp entertainment that plays like a first-class train ride through progressively bleaker circles of hell."
Variety"A controlled, mesmerising, beautiful thriller scarred by scenes of unshakeable brutality and breathless tension."
Total Film"It moves like a mad dog, looks like a hi-def dream and is deliciously cast."
Time Out"A bleak but mesmerizing piece of filmmaking."
The New Yorker"This brisk, intelligent thriller lacks social and political commitment."
The Guardian"It is a muscular, overwhelmingly confident movie – and its brutal violence is thus even tougher to take."
The Guardian"Gloriously rendered but too impersonal to leave a mark."
Rolling Stone"It worked for me."
Roger Ebert"Fine American version of the literary sensation delivers everything except that something extra."
Hollywood Reporter"A brilliant franchise movie."
Entertainment Weekly"His film is not for the faint-hearted."
Empire Magazine"It isn't a bad movie, but Fincher is capable of better."
E! Online"All surface—magnificent, arresting surface, but surface all the same."
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Award winner- Winner of Best Editing, Academy Awards 2012.
- Runtime
- 159
- Genre
- Thriller
- Country of origin
- USA, Sweden, UK, Germany
