So, another year, another Swedish flick with solid 5 star reviews from absolutely everyone.
Last year there was Let The Right One In, which saw the vampire love story of Twilight get slightly more violent, and give it to pre-pubescent kids, but ultimately, it was the same old crap with subtitles, and thus everyone seemed to adore it.
It's not a theory I'd subscribe to, until I saw A Prophet, and once again, same shit, different language, amazing reviews.
So, leave it to me to realise I should flat out avoid foreign cinema until new films get released, not freshly made, fresh in ideas, as is the problem with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, a two and a half hour journey of an investigation into a disappearance in an incestuous village of rich bastards by a disgraced journalist who brings along a hacker.
Long story short (If only they did that with the film) girl is psycho, only explained in poorly placed flashback of the unnecessary titular character, raped by parole officer, which leads to nothing in terms of plot, or actually character, fights back, goes to work on the case, helps discover the murderer, journalist who she stalks does most of the leg work, gets no character, everything is one dimensional and uninvolved, with the most desperate plot twists and unmistakably cliched 'accident' moments to add compelling drama and tension, which fails constantly.
Yes, I saw the annoying American dubbed version, the subtitled one was already 50 minutes in when I rushed to the cinema, but it doesn't stop the film from being awful, no new ideas, no interesting moments, completely forgettable, but some nice cinematography.
4/10
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