The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

**** - This first of three Swedish films based on late author Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium Trilogy” of books tells the story of a disgraced and prison-bound investigative journalist’s team-up with a crazy, bisexual, cyberpunk, computer hacking slut in order to solve a 40 year old missing persons case. Being a Swedish film this is subtitled in English, of course, so if that puts you off, this might not be the movie for you. However, since I watch pretty much all movies regardless of language with subtitles on, I did not have a problem. There’s not a lot of action – in fact there is almost none – but there is a pretty neat mystery plot that keeps the viewer second-guessing their own opinion of what happened. The ending is a bit odd (not unusual for a movie with sequels, I suppose) and there are some gratuitous sex scenes and some dull spots – which should be expected in any movie that is over 2 and a half hours long – but those are really only minor quibbles for a film that is actually quite entertaining.