The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: good, but unnecessary [MOVIE REVIEW]
Rooney Mara stars in Columbia Pictures' “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” also starring Daniel Craig. Photo by Anders Lindén/Columbia TriStar Marketing Group Final Jeopardy Answer: Because Americans won’t read subtitles. Question: Why did they remake “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”? Certainly the real answer to that question is that an English language remake was supremely more marketable and therefore more potentially profitable than the original Swedish film of the first of the late Stieg Larssen’s international best selling trilogy; and profitable it will be because the film is engrossing and at times spine tingling and chilling. Beginning with the best title sequence in recent memory, accompanied by an edgy rock score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, David Fincher’s “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” immediately establishes an off-kilter hard-edged mood. That the film is, for the most part, unable to sustain that initial buzz is disappointing, but perhaps the bar of expectation was set too high. Journalist Mikael Blomkvist has just lost a libel suit brought by a shady industrialist and with it his life savings. Asked to meet with Henrik Vanger, retired founder of the…
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