Movie Review-GO WATCH "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo"

Suspense laced with that smooth and seductive German accent

I have a confession to make: whatever NPR does Rishi B obeys. So when I was flipping through recommended movies on Netflix and saw the German The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, I nearly creamed my pants in excitement because Fresh Air, or Dirty Air or whatever, did a special on Stieg Larsson's 2005 mystery book of the same name from which the movie is inspired. The NPR segment brought up that a Hollywood remake is in the workings so I decided to check out the 2009 German film. Now if you're not a nerdy Democrat like I imagine myself to be then you may not have listened to NPR as much as I have; it's mostly quiet except for a few snappy jazz numbers. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is also quiet but in a much more suspenseful way, maybe because it has no snappy jazz numbers.

From start to finish I felt that creepy feeling that something nuts is about to happen, I just did not know what. A journalist is convicted of a crime and is set to go to prison in 6 months. During that time he is contacted by an elderly man to discover what he can about the elderly man's niece's disappearance 40 years ago. The elderly man suspects someone, or someones, of his family whom all live in the same town in separate houses. To put himself in the environment of the situation the journalist moves into the town. The movie is about the suspenseful adventure through secrets that follows.

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is a great movie and not once should you be bothered by the subtitles. It's like The Ring but with a much better plot and not as horrifically unreal; the horrific unreality is replaced with creepy reality. And it has creepy women, including the mysterious girl with the dragon tattoo, and German people. What could POSSIBLY be scarier than creepy women and German people trying to be scary?