The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [Blu-ray]
by Niels Arden Oplev
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Actor: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi RapaceDirector: Niels Arden Oplev
Brand: MUSIC BOX FILMS CORP.
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Swedish (Original Language); English (Original Language); English (Dubbed)
Format: Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 152 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2010-07-06
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Model: MBFHE0010
Studio: Music Box Films
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- Condition: New
- Format: Blu-ray
- Widescreen
Blu-ray Reviews of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [Blu-ray]
Blu-ray Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Summary: 5 Stars
This will probably be construed as a controversial statement but even as a fan of the late Stieg Larrson's Milleniumm series I do admit that to me the filmmakers took the book and made something better from it. To be fair to Larrson while I loved The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo the exposition and the plot were a little clunky relying on deepening the mystery through an incredible ammount of coincendence and the book only came alive after Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander finally joined forces. In a way the filmmakers took a typical first novel and improved at least in my opinion.
The movie to me is just a well made piece of entertainment with everything just falling into place to make an excellent mystery thriller. Starting with the casting Michael Nyqvist is the right fit for Blomkvist being middle aged, intelligent and reasonably awkward for the situation even when confronting Salander. I didn't want to compare him to the casting of Daniel Craig for the American redux (not going to judge yet) but Craig is now invariably linked to the image of a tough guy while poor Blomkvist kind of stumbles into things accidentally using his brain to try to find a way out of. Its hard to see him winning of the trust of Salander so easily and Nyqvist embodies this.
However of course for any fan of the book its the actress who plays Salander herself and of course Nooma Rapace is excellent in physical stature and attitude for the character. Something that impressed me more strangely enough was her voice which could waver between the feminene going to something animalistic especially in the scenes involving her new gaurdian Nils Bjurman.
And to end the director does an excellent time in visualizing the novel. Its nothing amazing as most of the mystery involves enhancing photographs and looking at computer screens but I like Roger Ebert's comparisons to Blow-Out or Blow Up as something to liken it to. The action itself is well done including one of the most uncomfortable rape scenes I've seen put to film, and a good conclusion to the mystery resolved between two people talking (sure its the falacy of the talking killer but well acted between the actors). It will be interesting to compare the films vision as the redux is coming from David Fincher. In the mean time Niels Arden Oplev did an excellent job with this adaptation.
I could go on and on but this simply put an excellent thriller, well worth seeing before David Fincher helms his adaptation.
The Blu-Ray of course has excellent picture and sound though this isn't one to really show off the format. Disappointingly there aren't a lot of features either outside of a Vanger family tree line, an interview with Rapace and a preview of The Girl Who Played with Fire. Despite the scarcity of extras the films still worth seeing whether you choose Blu-Ray or DVD.
Description of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [Blu-ray]
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 beloved uncle is convinced it was murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) and the tattooed and troubled but resourceful computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) 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 Vanger's are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves.Fans of Stieg Larsson's Men Who Hate Women may have been concerned about how the Swedish author's novel would translate to the screen, but they needn't have worried. Significant changes to the source material have been made, but director Niels Arden Opley's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, as it's now called, is mostly riveting. As the story begins, middle-aged investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) has just been convicted of a bogus charge of libel against a rich and corrupt corporate hotshot when he's unexpectedly offered a most unusual gig. An aging captain of industry named Henrik Vanger (Sven-Bertil Taube) wants Blomkvist to figure out what happened to Vanger's niece, who disappeared more than 40 years earlier; not only is the old man convinced that she was murdered, but he suspects that another member of his large and rather disagreeable family (which includes several former Nazis) is the culprit. Blomkvist takes the job, which includes spending at least six months on Vanger's isolated island in the middle of winter. But what he doesn't know is that he's being spied on by twentysomething Lisbeth Salander (brilliantly played by Noomi Rapace in a career-making performance), the titular Girl and the possessor of remarkable skills as a sleuth and computer hacker. With her gothlike piercings and all-black clothes, Lisbeth is a vivid character, to say the least. While we don't exactly know the details of her dark past, it's obviously still with her; indeed, she's just been assigned a new "guardian" (like a parole officer) to look after her finances and other matters. We also know that she is not someone to mess with; when the guardian turns out to be a thoroughly vile monster, Lisbeth gets back at him in one of the more satisfying revenge sequences in recent memory. That Lisbeth and Mikael should end up working together, and more, isn't especially surprising. But the horrifying details and depths of depravity they uncover while working on the case (parallels to The Silence of the Lambs are facile but appropriate) definitely are, and Opley does a nice job of keeping it all straight. At more than two and a half hours, the film is long, with its share of grim, graphic, and scary moments, but The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a winner. --Sam Graham
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