
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle suspects murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, ruthless computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders ... (Full plot summary below)
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Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle suspects murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, ruthless computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from almost forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history; but, the Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves.
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| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThe resulting film is neither better nor worse than the Swedish film, but it's more cinematic. |
| NewsBlazePrairie MillerA ballsier than thou babe who really knows how to rescue her timid man from danger and relishes retaliatory rape in reverse, delivers potent screen enigma in the masculinization of a profoundly sexually damaged female psyche. |
| Filmcritic.comChristopher Nullmore of a compressed miniseries vomited onto the big screen, an experience that feels like it has had some critical information cut out of it rather haphazardly. |
| Metro (UK)Angie ErrigoDirector Niels Arden Oplev deftly weaves together the unusual mix of mystery, disturbing psychodrama and offbeat romance, keeping the action taut and engrossing from first scene to nail-biting climax. |
| Watertown Daily TimesAdam Tobias... a sensational, spine-chilling thriller that will leave you clenching the arms on your theater chair until your knuckles turn white. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeNone of its 146-minute running time is dull, each turn of the plot makes sense, and the outcome of just about everything is extremely satisfying. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanFincher has made The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo into an electrifying movie by turning the audience into addicts of the forbidden, looking for the sick and twisted things we can't see. |
| eFilmCritic.comRob GonsalvesI'll happily sit for two more movies featuring this pair; I only wish there could be more. |
| ViewLondonMatthew TurnerBrilliantly directed, beautifully shot and superbly written. |
| Georgia StraightKen EisnerWhen it wants to, this Dragon definitely breathes fire. |