Review of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) by Ian U — 06 Jan 2013

A journalist (Daniel Craig) seeks the help of a young, troubled computer hacker (Rooney Mara) to track down a missing woman in director David Fincher's highly enthralling thriller, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

After her great supporting work as Mark Zuckerberg's ex-girlfriend in Fincher's previous picture, The Social Network, Rooney Mara gives another remarkable performance here as the hacker. In fact, her performance is more or less what makes this picture worth seeing since she plays an outstanding female character who basically has the personality of a man with her minimal yet efficient social skills and an intimidating amount of intelligence and persistence.