David Fincher is a director who knows how to show the darker side of human nature. From the cerebral and disturbing "Se7en" to the subversive "Fight Club" he uncovers a filthy, dangerous underbelly of society.
When it came to remaking Niels Arden Oplev's 2009 film of Stieg Larsson's Millenium Trilogy bestseller, only one man could have done it justice. Fincher's English language remake carries a menace rarely seen in recent Hollywood thrillers. Sinister and darkly brutal this isn't an easy…

Regisseur David Fincher hoeft zich al lang niets meer aan te trekken van hoongelach. Criticasters die het idee rond een film over Facebook pietluttig vonden kregen lik op stuk met ‘The social network', een messcherpe dwarsdoorsnede van het Amerikaanse entrepreneurschap. Wellicht weerklonk wederom hoongelach toen Fincher te kennen gaf dat zijn volgende film een bewerking ging worden van een Zweeds literair fenomeen dat nota bene in eigen land al op een uiterst succesvolle filmbewerking kon rekenen. Belegen uitverkoop van een…

Film 77 of The 2013 Project.

Running time: 158 minutes.

Now this is exactly how you do a remake, yes it was so soon after the original and I didn't think they could do it right but they did. David Fincher is the right man for the job, and he directs this brilliantly. Rooney Mara takes on the character of Lisbeth so well, and she totally sells herself as her, she is definitely one of my favourite actresses now. Just…

I wasn't planning on seeing this until tonight when I got a hankering for a David Fincher movie that I couldn't ignore anymore. The book had been quite important to me as had been, and still is, the character of Lisbeth Salander. As is the norm in such situations, I did not feel a movie could accurately reflect what was especially compelling about the book. I was right to a certain extent; as usual the book still outshines the movie,…

A disgraced journalist is hired to investigate a 40-year-old disappearance. He teams up with a brilliant but damaged hacker.

The plot isn’t very distinguished, but director David Fincher presents it with conviction and style, and invests it with integrity. He makes particularly evocative use of old photographs. The characters are nicely fleshed out. The title character is a tough customer, but not a generic bad-ass. This is due mostly to Rooney Mara’s performance. She finds subtle ways to show what’s…

Pretty much what I expected. I finally gave it a look because I sometimes find Fincher's creativity interesting. But even his expertise cannot redeem this incredibly ugly story about bigots and torturers and sadists being hunted by others who have only the faintest traces of conscience. It's a slicker version than the original, but it also stretches a shallow piece of storytelling so far that I was bored and exhausted.The story builds up an enormous appetite for vigilante justice and…