The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (2011) - Dec. 29, 2011
A disappointingly by-the-numbers adaptation of the book.  Though Fincher does a decent enough job of transfering the book to the screen while retaining his own sense of style (the film is unmistakably a David Fincher movie), the movie feels even more like a generic procedural on screen than on the page.  It feels like Law & Order: Sweden (only with much more rape).  It probably doesn't help that there are long stretches in which characters do research on the internet or in a library.  Even gussied up with slick visuals, watching people read a book is just not interesting (well, I suppose it worked for All the President's Men, but this is no All the President's Men).  **1/2