Five star rating system *****
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2.5 stars
I wish to start by apologizing to the late Stieg Larsson's family because this isn't a great review. Would someone please explain the popularity of this book. Almost everyone I've talked to has raved about this story saying, "Once you start you won't be able to stop." Honestly? Once I started, it was hard for me to continue. It took almost 200 pages for me to get into the story. The only reason I kept reading was to be able to tell my clients who had recommended it that I had finished. Plus, I thought it might redeem itself and make me read the next two. It didn't.
Okay, the premise is good.
Mikael Blomkvist is a disgraced financial journalist sentenced to jail for libeling a supposedly corrupt businessman. He is suspended by the magazine he writes for then hired by industrialist Henrik Vanger who wants to find out the secret of his beloved great-niece's disappearance before he dies and promises wealth and damaging info on said shady businessman.
Through Mikael's research, he comes in contact with a number of odd and eccentric characters, most notably the pierced and tattooed Lisbeth Salander, an uncultivated but vulnerable computer hacker. The two of them uncover a hornet's nest of family corruption, and Mikael discovers some of the shocking events that have left Salander scarred.
Sounds great, right? Not really. This part of the story-line is good but it's the other two-hundred pages of non-plot related signifigance that takes away from the book. This is one of those rare times that I think the movie will be better than the book. Reason? Because time restrictions will hopefully guarantee that the story keeps on plot and doesn't wander off in all directions.
As far as casting goes:
Mikael--Pierce Brosnan, Richard Gere, Gabriel Byrne
Lisbeth--Kiera Knightly or Mila Kunis
That's my opinion, for what it's worth.
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