James Kiester (keystar1970)

About a year ago, I tried to watch the Alec Guinness mini-series version of TTSS, but when there was no dialogue, or anything else to tell viewers what was happening, for the first half hour, I became board and lost interest. Recently, I heard Gary Oldman's portrayal of agent Smiley was faster paced, so I gave it a shot. IT IS 2 hours instead of 4 hours (I think), but the pace was still dirt slow and boringly cerebral. And before you say, "It's supposed to be a thought provoking mystery," you should understand that I had all 3 bad guys picked out in the first 20 minutes with NO difficulty at all.

I wanted to see this movie, mostly because I couldn't get through the gibberish heavy book. Yes, I know people loved the book, but so much time was spent explaining how Salander got her job and who she wouldn't screw that I couldn't get into the story, and I gave up.

The movie did get right into the story, and was more successful than the book in that regard. The acting was grade A as well. My problem was that with scenes of brooding characters, rape, and torture it was just dark and heavy for almost the entire 2 hours 37 minute runtime.

Still, that's what the story was, and the movie told the story well.