The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Sweden) - Good & Edgy

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Synopsis: 

The story is about a journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, for Swedish political magazine Millennium, who lost a libel case involving allegations about billionaire industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström and is sentenced to three months in prison. However, as the 3 months sentence will only commenced in 6 months time due to legal procedure & appealing, he is offered a freelance job assignment by Henrik Vanger, former CEO of Vanger Corp. At the same time, Henrik Vanger also assign a PI, Lisbeth Salander to investigate into Blomkvist's personal and professional history. Hendrik enticed Blomkvist in by promising not only financial reward for the assignment, but also solid evidence against Wennerström. Blomkvist agrees to investigate the case of the disappearance of Vanger's niece Harriet some 40 years earlier which Vanger believes that Harriet was murdered by a member of the Vanger family. Meanwhile, Salander meets her new legal guardian, Nils Bjurman due to the old guardian had a stroke. Nils uses his position to extort sexual favors from her in return for access to the money from her own financial accounts. After two sexual assaults, Salander attacks Bjurman; she tattoos him and blackmails him with the release of a video of him raping her in return for full control of her bank accounts. Salander also found to be interested in Blomkvist due to his clean nature and decided to give hints to him via email and finally he persuades her to assist him with research. Together, they discover entries in Harriet's diary that list the names of missing women from across Sweden; this leads them to suspect that they are on the trail of a serial killer, who has been at large for decades.
Review:

I had kept this copy for months as there were many movies to be watched and somehow didn't find it worth the time yet to watch until one lazy afternoon and nothing else to watch. So i decided to give this movie a chance and boy was i right. From the get go, the movie just glued you in with its good crime investigation story and also focus on both character's feeling and emotion. It is an easy to watch movie with some nice plot and good story. However, the main Swedish character, Blomkvist is quite weak and not much expression.. Face is almost like HK star " Lo Ka Leung" but fat version. But be warned as there are many nudity involved such as lesbian scene, bondage, and etc. and is for mature viewers only but it is necessary for the flow of the story.
Verdict:

Overall, i give this movie a 3 star out of 5.