The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011)

Rated R

 

Runtime: 2 hours and 37 minutes

 

Genre: Crime, Mystery and Drama

 

Director: David Fincher

 

Writer: Steven Zaillian

 

Actors: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgård, Steven Berkoff, Robin Wright, Yorick van Wageningen and Joely Richardson

 

Budget: $90,000,000

 

Box Office: $232,617,430

 

Positives:

• Strong dark and heavy tone quality

• Smooth contrast and brightness

• Impressive imagery for the opening sequence

• Very deep five act structure

• The technology and camera effects is very well done

• Interesting mystery and complexity

• Very precise with exposition

• Intriguing editing

• Excellent performances

• Fantastic music score

• Clean location and landmark choices

• One bible verse that is a good fact towards this case

• Great sound design

Negatives:

• Minor pacing issues, since there is a lot of editing going on

Overall Verdict:

Story 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (9)

Character 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (9)

Dialogue/Diction 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (9)

Pacing/Timing 0 1 2 3 4 5 (4)

Background/Sets 0 1 2 3 4 5 (5)

Background Music/Audio 0 1 2 3 4 5 (5)

Camera/Editing 0 1 2 3 4 5 (5)

46/50 9.2/10