Very much like its Swedish forbear, David Fincher’s remake substitutes Daniel Craig for Michael Nyqvist as disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist (he’s had to pay a libel judgment to a wealthy businessman) and Rooney Mara for Noomi Rapace as the titular, wiry hacker heroine. It may be that I’d just seen the original film that made this one a little less riveting, although the casting is equally good. Mara’s Lisabeth Salander is just a tad softer than Rapace’s, and a little quieter, and there are small plot differences, but not big ones. The location stays the same, Sweden, and, in particular, the isolated island where a family’s patriarch (Christopher Plummer) has hired Blomkvist to delve into his troubled family history, in particular a murder that occurred some 40 years before. Only the language switches to English, with the accents ranging from Craig’s and Plummer’s English ones, to Robin Wright’s (Blomkvist’s editor/lover) Euro-tinged American, to Mara’s Swedish. Real Swedes, most prominently Stellan Skarsgård, play smaller roles.
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viewed 1/1/2012 12:30 pm at Riverview and reviewed 11/1/2012
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