In this instance though, I'm afraid I have to march against the crowd. It left me cold. It just didn't do it for me at all.
To me, this is what a Scooby Doo episode would be if it were R-rated and in Sweedish. Far from the complex, twisty-turny tale of intrigue, betrayal and suspicion, the story was less captivating than a jar of mayonnaise.
Yes there were some quite graphic rape scenes, but having seen Antichrist and Shortbus I feel I was pretty well prepared and when considered in that company, they were pretty tame.
The characters weren't particularly well rounded and I really couldn't see why relationships played out the way that they did.
For some reason, the subtitles really bugged me this time. I've seen hundreds of foreign language films in everything from German to Spanish, French to Elvish, but for some reason I found fault with it in this case. Perhaps simply because I didn't find the film remarkable and could just have easily have watched a identically mediocre English film of the same genre.
Oh... and they made very little mention of the dragon tattoo. It seemed to have very little significance when it came to either the girl or the plot.
Having gone in expecting to enjoy the film and intending to read the second and third books in the series, I left flat and almost desperate enough to go out and buy a new vampire book.
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2 unmet expectations
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