Daniel Craig (Actor), Rooney Mara (Actor), David Fincher (Director) | Format: Blu-ray
(61)Release Date: March 20, 2012
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #3 in DVD
- Released on: 2012-03-20
- Rating: R (Restricted)
- Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
- Number of discs: 3
- Formats: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
- Original language: English
- Subtitled in: Arabic, English, French, Hebrew
- Dubbed in: French
- Running time: 158 minutes
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A murder poser abundant with suspense, scandal, passionate abuse, and some magnificently intriguing characters, The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo is an excellently crafted film instrumentation of Stieg Larsson's equally fascinating book of a same name. Larsson's book was also a basement of a 2009 Swedish film (also with a same title), and while a Swedish film was good, this American chronicle is distant superior, interjection to illusory cinematography and livelier pacing that formula in a constant, electric tragedy that drives each second of a movie. The monumental footage of a snowy, remote island in Sweden entirely exudes sour cold, and a courtesy to a smallest details, like a whistling of a breeze by a doorway left ajar, creates a hairs on a behind of viewers' necks positively prickle. Like a book, a film is prolonged (158 minutes), there's an contentment of discourse that is never ungainly and always efficient, and there are copiousness of fake endings. The torment and a meandering of a poser are stellar, and even viewers who know a story good will find themselves sucked into a riddle being investigated by publisher Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig). The casting is great, as are a performances of all a pivotal actors, yet by distant a best thing about this film is Rooney Mara, who is definitely plausible as a impossibly strong, intensely uneasy Lisbeth Salander, Blomkvist's doubtful assistant. Mara's opening is chillingly genuine and totally riveting. Yorick outpost Wageningen is ideally inhuman as Nils Bjurman (though his stage with Salander is certain to infer rarely unfortunate to some viewers), Christopher Plummer is an effective Henrik Vanger, and Stellen Skarsgård is eerily frightening as Martin Vanger. Viewers can usually wish that executive David Fincher, screenplay author Steven Zaillian, and actors Craig and Mara will continue their partnership to furnish films formed on a final dual books of Larsson's Millennium trilogy. --Tami Horiuchi
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238 of 256 people found a following examination helpful.
This is not a reconstitute of an strange adaptation
By Cool Breeze
When American filmmakers motionless to put onward a second instrumentation of a Swedish vampire/drama/horror film, "Let a Right One In", a tiny dual years after a initial one had been expelled in Sweden, we was flattering angry. Like many other geeks who'd seen a strange instrumentation of a Swedish novel, we suspicion that not adequate time had passed(2 years)since a recover of a initial film, and that there was positively no justification for a second adaptation. Additionally, a Swedish "Let a Right One In" instrumentation was an unbelievably good finished film(a classical in my opinion)and we believed that an try during an American instrumentation so shortly after a coming of a strange film was rather disrespectful. "At slightest concede a strange film to occupy a place in a fear pantheon for during slightest a few years before some penetrate executive is given accede to sully a bequest of a initial film with his/her adaptation," is what I'd pronounced to myself after apropos arcane to a proclamation of a new film.
After primarily vowing never to see a American instrumentation of "Let a Right One In", a relentless certain hum that preceded a film's recover date led to a change of heart. Immediately after examination a American instrumentation we suspicion "Wow. we am so blissful that we motionless to watch this movie." The American instrumentation was opposite from a Swedish instrumentation in many ways. In fact, a American film had some good qualities that did not exist in a Swedish version. That said, we enjoyed both cinema immensely. Each film appealed to a graphic partial of my whole personality, thereby creation a richer knowledge for me. Most of a veteran critics would substantially agree.
Fast brazen to Dec 21, 2011, and a film going open is faced with a matching phenomenon. In 2009, a Swedish instrumentation of a Stieg Larson novel, "The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo", was expelled to vicious and box bureau commend in Sweden. It was afterwards eliminated to a United States for singular release. The film became a vicious and renouned strike in a United States, finished a star out of singer Noomi Rapace(who did a good pursuit as a lead) and eventually finished an American statue out of a novel's heroine, Lisbeth Salander. Again, a tiny dual years passes between a recover of both films, and thankfully, a film's executive is no Bret Ratner. He is David Fincher, a shining auteur who has destined seminal films such as "Seven", "Fight Club", and a "Social Network". With Fincher's name trustworthy to a American Adaptation, it gains present credibility. However, lovers of a initial film are still skeptical. They are fearful that a new chronicle will not live adult to a standards of a strange adaptation. Well, I'm here to contend that a palm wringers can rest easy. David Fincher's chronicle of "The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo" is usually as good, if not better, than a Swedish original.
Many of we who are reading this examination are informed with Stieg Larson's novel. It facilities a impression named Lisbeth Salander, a 24 year aged talent mechanism hacker whose life has been finished unequivocally formidable given of a psychological/sexual/physical abuse that has been put on her by masculine management figures. Because of this abuse, Lisbeth comes to depreciate men. That is until she comes into hit with ashamed journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, with whom she teams adult with to solve a 40 year aged "murder" of Harriet Vagner, a relations of abounding businessman, Henrik Vagner. As they examine a disappearance of Harriet, Lisbeth and Mikael turn endangered in a passionate relationship, where on Lisbeth develops feelings for a fashionable reporter. They are means to solve a box together even as a attribute between Mikael and Lisbeth becomes complicated.
All of a actors do good for themselves in this film adaptation, generally singer Rooney Mara, who unequivocally gives her all as Lisbeth. Noomi Rapace was good as Lisbeth in a Swedish chronicle of "The Girl with a Dragon Tatoo". However, Rooney Mara's earthy and psychological interpretation of a shop-worn Lisbeth unequivocally grabs you. Anyone who has examination a book will tell we that Rooney Mara's Lisbeth fits some-more with their idealized picture of Lisbeth; an emaciated, pale, sexy, and infrequently androgynous girl/woman with a unequivocally nasty strain if provoked. Rooney has already been nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance, and is expected to get some-more courtesy during a arriving awards season. Daniel Graig is plain as Mikael Blomkvist, and Stellen Skarsgard gives a scary, creepy opening as Martin Vanger. Oh, and special acclamation to Yorick Van Waginengen, whose opening as Bjurman(Lisbeth's aroused amicable worker) unequivocally creates we depreciate his character. You will glory when he receives his comeuppance in a heartless scene.
David Fincher's chronicle of "The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo" moves many quicker than a Swedish version, even nonetheless a film runs roughly 3 hours. Everything about Fincher's film is leaner/edgier than a prior version: a lead characters are younger and nastier, a modifying is quicker, and a dialog is sharper. Much some-more of Stieg Larson's story is told in David Fincher's film than in a prior version; and this allows a executive to unequivocally rise a attribute between Lisbeth and Mikael. we also like a tinge of this movie. It's a dark, cold and gray movie. we don't consider that a object ever shines in one scene, and given a theme matter of a film(female rape and murder)it would be wrong for a film to be filmed in any other approach besides a dim and gray.
So go watch this movie. You'll be amply transfixed by it. And if we haven't seen a Swedish chronicle of a film, watch that too. They are both smashing movies, and a certain vicious accepting is scarcely matching for both cinema as well. A warning though. If we have not seen a initial film or examination a books, ready yourself for some unfortunate content.
91 of 100 people found a following examination helpful.
Exceptional; improves on an already illusory film
By C. Sawin
The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo has a rather vast fan following and for good reason. The 2009 Swedish film is impossibly plain and well-acted with usually a right volume of wrong. The dual sequels that followed had their possess ascending battles (switching directors, reduce budget, etc) and weren't indispensably bad, nonetheless usually unsuccessful to constraint that tender romantic persistence a strange film offered. When news of a reconstitute began creation a common rounds, there was a sincerely vast conflict among a internet village (isn't there always?), generally when it was announced Noomi Rapace wouldn't be returning as Lisbeth Salander. Most American remakes aren't destined by David Fincher nonetheless and while it isn't vastly opposite in comparison to a Swedish counterpart, Fincher has during slightest softened on what was already a illusory square of cinema.
The opening of a film was a bit unexpected. "The Immigrant Song" cover by Trent Reznor and Karen O plays over these unequivocally liquid visuals that are a bit tough to describe. Imagine a T-1000 from Terminator 2 finished of engine oil or connect instead of steel and we have a flattering good suspicion of what to expect. It was usually unequivocally opposite from other film credits from a rest of a year while also being unequivocally sleek, unequivocally stylish, and unequivocally David Fincher.
The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo is intensely discourse driven, so be prepared for a lot of talking. It feels unequivocally matching to Zodiac in that clarity nonetheless some-more captivating. Even nonetheless we had seen a strange film and knew many of a vital tract points, we still found myself removing sucked into a story. Even if we hatred this chronicle of a film and your faithfulness stays resolutely with a Swedish film, we can substantially during slightest determine that Fincher's chronicle is visually a softened of a two. The cinematography is usually brilliant. You've gotten teases in a trailers, nonetheless a coldest winter in 20 years for Sweden looks so bloody illusory on screen; a extraordinary scenery, those prolonged drives by a snow, feeling like you're on a behind of Lisbeth's motorcycle as she roars by a tunnel, and a middle shot of a cosmetic bag among many other things. The film is usually a fun to demeanour during from commencement to end.
The measure is also usually as shining as a one for The Social Network, if not somewhat better. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross seem to try domain they didn't get to try on The Social Network score. This one seems to underline some-more out of balance instruments, that is an engaging touch. The measure hints during rising tragedy via a film always creation we feel like there's always something else to a story sneaking around a dilemma watchful for a right impulse to strike. It's haunting, unnerving, and usually fantastic overall.
Noomi Rapace was an well-developed Lisbeth Salander and with that pronounced so is Rooney Mara. Just a volume of friendship she put into a purpose with a piercings being genuine, splotch her eyebrows, slicing her hair, training how to float a motorcycle, regulating a unequivocally convincing Swedish accent, entrance off as being usually as messed adult as her coming lets on, and being totally bare is an implausible accomplishment. It's not out of a doubt to trust that a purpose this earthy could get her nominated for best singer during a Academy Awards. The whole expel usually seems like they fit their roles a bit softened than they did in a Swedish film. This is one of a usually performances of Daniel Craig's we can indeed contend we enjoyed while Stellan Skarsgård is usually splendidly demented. Then there's Yorick outpost Wageningen that's usually officious inhuman as Nils Bjurman. It doesn't seem like it's something as elementary as "oh, you're display bias towards a reconstitute given it's in English now." That isn't a box during all. Fincher's courtesy to fact to a source element is many Kubrick-like. It shows in each support of a film.
Fincher's chronicle also seems to underline a lot some-more of Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander being together. They have some-more sex and they're featured together some-more on-screen in comparison to a Swedish version. It was a good further that finished a somewhat altered finale a lot some-more impactful. The whistling doors in Martin's residence were also amazing. we can't remember if that was in a Swedish chronicle or not, nonetheless it brought a grin to my face with how something so tiny meant so much.
The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo is apparently not going to be for everybody. It relies on intensely prolonged discussions to expostulate many of a dual and a half hour generation of a film. In between though, it becomes formidable to watch mostly with how Nils Bjurman handles giving Lisbeth some-more income and her response. Lisbeth's response will some-more than expected have we tiptoeing out of a museum as smoothly as probable given you'll still be feeling it. With a unusual cast, impossibly abounding cinematography, a shining score, and Rooney Mara's best opening to date, The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo is not usually an alleviation over a strange nonetheless simply one of a best films of a year.
38 of 43 people found a following examination helpful.
Why This Dragon Flies
By Diana F. Von Behren
After observation a sincerely well-produced and well-adapted "Girl" trilogy of films (based on a Millennium novels by a late Stieg Larrson) by executive Niels Arden Oplev, a question, "Why see nonetheless another chronicle of this same story?" (even if it is finished in English, Hollywood style) competence usually cranky one's mind generally in a discontinued economy where debasement renders duplication superfluous. However tighten to a soundness of a author's prophesy Noomi Rapace's opening competence have been, Rooney Mara's incarnation of Lisbeth Salander seems some-more nuanced; she smolders with annoy and reprisal like her predecessor, nonetheless withdraws in flattering silhouettes with a psychological disadvantage that endows her with even some-more eremitic draw and hints during a underbelly personal story nonetheless to be revealed.
Even nonetheless easy-on-the-eyes Daniel Craig, as a courageous publisher Mikhal Blomkvist, some-more than sufficient portrays a likeable impression with a winning, roughly comatose self-consciousness, he conciliatorily fades into a credentials when Mara is on a screen. As in a novel, Salander's irritable potency and talent works good opposite a backdrop of a clearly well-oiled multitude versed with high-speed trains and record nonetheless rotting from within with a dignified corruptness that suggests restricted aggression. Mara's face mirrors both Lisbeth's extreme rebellion and a perpetually scars she wears like a tattoo of resistant resilience.
Director David Fincher deviates a bit from a gospel of a Larsson text--his Lisbeth admits her past plainly to Blomkvist in a TMI stage that isn't loyal to a sensibility of a created character. Perhaps, Fincher, disturbed about a accepting of this English chronicle and endangered about executing a sequels, reveals too many to intensify Lisbeth's unnoticed clarity of profanation per Blomkvist's singular nonetheless open promiscuity. Perhaps, his notice of her enterprise to greatfully Blomkvist with her honesty and her physique even after heartless passionate confinement underlines her purpose as lady and her place notwithstanding her talent and harmed sensibility. This is, after all, a novel, that in Europe tellingly goes by a Swedish pretension "Män som hatar kvinnor" that translates into English as "Men who hatred women." The novel's territory headings are noted with statistics per a percentages of women brutalized by group which, along with pivotal instances in a plotline describing women reduced to plant standing due to a sadistic and masochistic actions of their ostensible caretakers or desired ones, advise that even with a clearly blasé opinion per infrequent passionate relations and equivalence among a sexes, there is indeed some unfortunate emanate that in this note can't be accurate by a actions of supervision or management nonetheless by holding a matter into one's possess unequivocally able vigilante hands.
In addition, rather than have a twin work together as in a novel to eventually exhibit a initiator of a forty-year-old crime, Fincher chooses to film together sequences of note set to a fast-paced sound of European motorcycles and a irritable organic song of a Oscar-winning group of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. This works to cut a altogether time of what could have simply been a three-hour military procedural instead of a fascinating impression investigate of an governmental wandering and her soon-to-be apostolic horseman errant.
Fincher misses a pivotal flashback stage event where Lisbeth stands and watches a torpedo die as his automobile bursts into flames. Why not have his protagonist tremble with that observance from her possess past and give a assembly a disturb of mutual understanding? For those non-novel readers, because not an anticipatory frisson of what is to come in a subsequent dual installments? Maybe Fincher suspicion this would be a TMI moment.
Bottom line? Director David Fincher (The Social Network) compacts Stieg Larsson's wayward novel The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo (Millennium Trilogy) into dual hours and 38 mins of heated film introducing to a mainstream English vocalization assembly a irritable pathology and presence of Dragon Girl--social misfit, insurgent and genius, Lisbeth Salander. Be warned a film contains aroused rape, a depiction of a lame animal and stills of misogynistic torture. The strength of Rooney Mara's description of a lead impression is some-more than adequate reason to revisit this newer version. Recommended.
Diana Faillace Von Behren
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