Review of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) by Peter W — 04 Nov 2012

I remember seeing David Fincher's teaser trailer for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which intersperses insanely quick cuts of the film-too fast to process, really-with a long, ominous shot of a house at the end of a driveway, slowing coming closer and closer.

And as I watched this trailer for the first time, set to a Trent Reznor/Karen O cover of "Immigrant Song", I remember thinking, "Holy. Shit." Not just because the trailer was so wildly mind-blowing, but because, yet again, David Fincher had made a film I felt I had to see.

And Fincher's iteration of Dragon Tattoo does not disappoint. Like other David Fincher films, it is raw and bloody, and incredibly cool. This is a director whose films aren't stylish for styles' sake, but simply meant to inform the tone of the story unfolding before you.

Put another way: this is a director who knows exactly what he's doing, and has proved it once again.