Rooney Mara shows that she can, at the tender age of 26, act with the very best in this year’s “feel bad movie of the Christmas season” - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Her performance as Lisbeth Salander, ultra-intense goth computer hacker extraordinaire, is simply electrifying! Her powerful gaze lights up the screen and her entrance into each scene has everyone in the film, as well as the audience, on pins and needles, anxiously awaiting her next move. She’s a live-wire. Salander’s infamous talents for obtaining data (they may or may not be completely legal) attract journalist Mikael Blomkvist, played with a steely intensity by Daniel Craig, who has taken a job to find a murderer amidst a family who all hate each other. What better to do when you’ve been sued for libel and lost your entire life’s savings? These are the kind of people that hire you.
The plot plays out like an ordinary mystery, in which the main character searches loads of archived data and interviews loads of interesting characters, who all may or may not have motive to kill one of their own, and who all may or may not seem creepy enough to commit murder. It’s a closed-room murder, like a classic Christie novel. All of the suspects live on an isolated island. So, little by little, Blomkvist and Salander begin to realize that they have more than likely already met the murderer, and that the killer more than likely knows how close they are to their identity. The killer doesn’t like this…
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(Read the full review @ mediaocu.com: http://mediaocu.com/2011/12/25/in-theaters-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo/)
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