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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (series) - Movie Review

Book To Film

I listened to the audiobooks on this six part series before watching the original three movies that were made in Swedish. This is appropriate as the movies take place in Switzerland. What also makes these movies much better than their remakes is that the movies cover books 1-3 where the remakes only cover books 1 and 4. Currently the original three movies are free with Amazon Prime. Yes, you will need to use English subtitles to follow but surprisingly you should be able to catch several words as they are very similar in both languages. I saw they were free at one time on a service (I believe Netflix) but missed my opportunity to watch them. They were on sale a few weeks ago on Vudu and I almost bought them just to watch as the books (at least the first three) were amazing twits filled with mystery. I was glad I was able to watch them on Amazon Prime and was not disappointed. I am not sure how the English dubbed are but the original is spectacular.

Review

I must point out these are great movies but are not PG-13 by any stretch of the imagination. The movies skim over some story lines but are very good adaptations of the first three books. Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist offer great performances. The draw back to the English subtitles is that I feel there are some loss in translations at times but for the most part are very well done.

All three films are good adaptations of the first three books. Something I know the remakes lacked as they only did books one and four. By skipping books two and three, you have no background on the main character's life and why she is the way she is. I can imagine why the remakes skipped these two books as there is a lot of tragedy and abuse done to the character. This makes you feel more for the character as it was developed over three films.

If you are interested so mystery and drama, look no further than these movies. I do warn these are not appropriate movies to watch with children. One final note for the original movies, these kept the cast for all three films and did not replace the main actress like the remakes did.

Rating

I would give all three movies a HD rating. I highly recommend watching these while they are free on Amazon Prime. I regret not picking these up when they were under $10 each. I have not seen the dubbed version but definitely recommend the original non-dubbed version as it gives more realism to the movie that is based in Switzerland.

Update:  With Family Video going out of business, I ended up getting the first two movies on DVD both for $8.  I picked up the third used DVD from Amazon for $7.  Besides the price, the DVDs include both original and dubbed audio tracks.  I am looking forward to seeing how the dubbed one compares with the original.

Update: There are extended versions of this series that I happened to get on sale in HD for $5 each.

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