The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

A crusading journalist and an antisocial master-hacker with a photographic memory whose approach to justice is refreshingly direct return to the big screen in David Fincher's adaptation of Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.  Fincher has fashioned a good looking and relatively tight presentation of an enjoyable book that's a bit of a kitchen sink sort of mess.  The film even manages to poke at the source material with good natured humor. Most memorably when Henrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer) explains his family tree to Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) who mutters he's never going to keep everyone straight. That's OK we want to assure him. Most readers couldn't either. But maybe I'm getting ahead of myself - what with assuming folks already know the story. If you haven't read the book, so let me back up...

Or better yet - let me direct you over to the full review at Three Imaginary Girls.

If you want the super short version, I'll leave you with the closing paragraph on the full review:

As a whole The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo will be a win for most readers of the book who inexplicably haven't seen Noomi Rapace nail Salander in the original films. It's also a great way to checkout the story if you haven't read the original series (much like seeing Twilight is better for not having read the book).  Frankly, unless you're super dogmatic about no remakes I think there's plenty to admire in this film regardless where you fall in terms of experience with the series. Imperfections that do exist can be traced back to the books - which were super fun but don't necessarily improve with each revisiting.