The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – a classical adaptation

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – a classical adaptation

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a 2011 thriller drama which is directed by David Fincher and produced by Scott Rudin. It is adapted from Stieg Larsson’s Swedish-language novel of the same name by Steven Zailian. Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara are the lead
characters and the music is given by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.

The $90 million budgeted movie follows a disgraced journalis, Mikael Blomkvist (Craig), as he investigates the disappearance of a wealthy patriarch’s niece from 40 years ago. Accompanied by tattooed computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander (Mara), he uncovers
immense corruption beyond anything they ever imagined.

The movie was released on December 20^th, 2011 and since then it has grossed $40, 811,000.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo received critical acclaim amongst various publications and critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes has reported that 86 percent of 180 critics have reviewed the film positively, with average rating of 7.6 out of 10. The
site’s general consensus states, “Brutal yet captivating, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the result of David Fincher working at his lurid best with total role commitment from star Rooney Mara.”

IMDB gave it a score of 8.3 out of 10 based on its 11,215 users and Metacritic gave the movie a score of 71 out of 100 based on 41 reviews.

Wall Street Journal’s film critic, Joe Morgenstern, praised the movie by saying, “It’s certainly worth seeing if you missed the original. If you saw it, however, there’s no way of unseeing it, and nothing in the new one to top it.”

Ben Sachs of the Chicago Reader declared, “David Fincher’s adaptation of the international best-seller is a triumph of craftsmanship over material.”

Eric D. Snider of the Film.com had a different opinion. He gave it a rating of C+ and said, “What he has delivered is adequate, but it doesn’t have any flavour – and of all the things Fincher is, "bland" is not usually one of them.”

The movie should be on everyone’s radar and it is a good way to pass time with your loved ones.  

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