Our local 'Art' picture house showed the first movie as I guess a pre-cursor to the new one, so with nothing to do off we went. Knew nothing about the book or the film apart from the hype over the books success, which probably accounted for us not seeing it in the first place. One of our fellow commuters was an editor for the UK publishers, Quercus, who on mentioning the book to me a year ago, meant nothing.
Anyway, thoroughly enjoyed the film even though it did get to the stage of all films of this genre of plot reveal, plot reveal, plot reveal..... But nevertheless, well made and shot, good performances all round with believable characters, and this being Swedish, actors unknown to you, and a decent plot. A couple of very arresting scenes, and revelation that the Swedes had their own version of the Nazi party. Although now I can remember that the founder of Ikea had been accused of one time membership.
However what is astonishing is that Hollywood are doing a remake of it with Daniel Craig in the lead (have you ever seen a chiseled looking hack???) and Emily Watson (her of this parish) as the girl with the tattoo. Cut her hair short for the audition apparently. Cant imagine the girl who sat on this sofa three years ago doing those scenes of a sexual nature.
Rotten tomatoes score correct.
8.7/10
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