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Based on the book by the late Stieg Larsson, a Swedish writer whose work became successful enough to warrant entry into the best-selling realms, ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ is a well made and stylish thriller that combines dark subject matter within the solving of the disappearance of a young lady some year prior to the film’s setting in the country of Sweden.
If there is any criticism towards a film that does attempt to at least reveal an interesting unfolding of a rather predictable outcome, then it is that in nearly two hours of cinematic professional airing, there are few reasons that cause anything to stand out from a rather unnecessarily long film.
Little original content
The unfortunate angle of “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo”, is that very little within the film is as original as it attempts to be and yet if considering that the book was so well received, the purpose behind the release of the film merely could remind most audiences who have seen ‘The Silence of The Lambs’ or even ‘Manhunter’ that the style may be visually impressive, but the content has been achieved before and with a great deal more of an impact.
With a vast amount of dramatic use of music in sections and almost rushed through and hurried explanations towards developing characters, ‘The Girl”¦’ is a tad enjoyable but not entirely, as it merely taps onto a rather interesting angle of Sweden that is not surely as bland as the film pertains the country to be and perhaps useful but also wasteful.
As a film that seems to be ‘Americanised’ it does seem both bland and slightly ineffectual with its outcome, the results of which suggest that ‘The Girl”¦’ offers very little in new direction by director Niels Arden Oplev.
Other Swedish thrillers
Should a viewer be interested in a Swedish thriller that demonstrates a view that although Sweden’s image is peaceful, it may well only be an image or stereotype. ‘The Girl”¦’ has enough to occupy considerably, but as a comparison to the excellent ‘Let The Right One In’, or even ‘Everlasting Moments’, this offer from Swedish cinema will only surprise marginally any viewer that has not encountered anything from America and last time I checked that was indeed a limited audience.
