This overlong. Emotionally restrained yet too graphic film is not all its cracked up to be. The main character - the troubled Lisbeth- comes across to me as almost creepy and not really nice to look at. On the plus side the acting overall was good and suited the atmosphere of the movie. Maybe here and there we could have gotten a bit more character development though. I found this one to be a bit gratuitous with the sexual situations- in another era Alfred Hitchcock would have come up with more clever and subtle hints- Here, the audience just gets clobbered with the violent carnality. This left me emotionally numb.
Multiple stereotypes are used, which is just the director taking the easy way out... The copy I watched may have had an audio issue so the reveal near the end was mostly unintelligible- I had to go online to look it up. But I suspect the same thing happened in the theatres for some people, some movies have moments where the dialogue is not well enunciated and this is one of them, at just the most critical point too. I found the truth about the missing girl to be quite a stretch, thus wrecking my suspension of disbelief. Btw, we barely even get to see the 'tattoo,' its just a blur, so the title does not even seem to fit.
Multiple stereotypes are used, which is just the director taking the easy way out... The copy I watched may have had an audio issue so the reveal near the end was mostly unintelligible- I had to go online to look it up. But I suspect the same thing happened in the theatres for some people, some movies have moments where the dialogue is not well enunciated and this is one of them, at just the most critical point too. I found the truth about the missing girl to be quite a stretch, thus wrecking my suspension of disbelief. Btw, we barely even get to see the 'tattoo,' its just a blur, so the title does not even seem to fit.