English translation: Men Who Hate Women
Or more commonly known as The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo 2009 (Swedish)

Director: Nills Arden Oplev

Producer: Søren Stærmose

Based on Steig Larrsons first book in the Millennium Series of the same name. Or in English ” The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo”

The Cast:
Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander
Michael Nyqvist as Mikael Blomkvist
Leena Endre as Erika Berger
Sven-Bertil Taube as Henrik Vanger
Peter Haber as Martin Vanger
Peter Andersson as Nills Bjurman
Ingvar Hirdwall as Dirch Frode
Björn Granath as Gustav Morrel
Maria Langercrantz as Cecilia Vanger
Michalis Koutsogiannakis as Dragan Armanskij
Stefan Sauk as Hans-Erik Wennerström

The Story:
Henrik Vanger employs Mikael Blomkvist to investigate the murder of his niece Harriet Vanger whom he believes was murdered by one of the members of the Vanger Family. He is assisted by socially awkward hacker Lisbeth Salander.

The Review:
The movie is in Swedish. So I had the practically read the movie. I’ve already read the book last year. I had seen the movie just after I read the book. So I was able to compare the two.
The movie and the book are similar. There are some changes made in the movie. They have also left out some parts in the movie. Though the movie is 3 hours long, they have omitted a few things in the movie that were In the book.
The epilogue part of the book, which is important for the sequels has been omitted. I felt that they could have added an reduced some other unnecessary scenes on the movie.
In the movie Mikael’s daughter doesn’t even appear. She helps Mikael with the biblical quotes. But in the movie, Lisbeth does the helping.

The acting of Noomi Rapace was phenomenal, but she didn’t win any awards for it.. The movie was slow paced and didn’t have the same feel as the book.

Now I just have to see the sequels and also the David Fincher version, which I’ve heard is better than this one.

Final Verdict:
The movie is fun to read ( If you don’t understand Swedish). Liked it though. But the book is always better. 8/10.