Release date: 12 March 2010

Running time: 153 mins

Director: Neils Arden Opley

Starring: Noomi Rapace, Michael Niqvist, Peter Harber, Lena Endre

A hacker and a maverick journalist investigate the mysterious disappearance of a Swedish industrialist's niece 40 years earlier.

When investigative reporter Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Niqvist) loses a libel case brought by a Swedish tycoon, his career reaches a low point as he faces a prison sentence. But then a call from rival industrialist Henrik Vanger (Peter Harber) offers him the opportunity to salvage his reputation and rescue his failing magazine. Under the cover of writing Venger's autobiography, Blomkvist is offered the job of solving the mystery behind his great-niece's disappearance from the family's remote island home four decades earlier. When Blomkvist in turn hires brilliant computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) to help him uncover the secret, her disturbing and wild behaviour brings about a turn of events. As the owner of the dragon tattoo, she holds the key to the unravelling the cold case in which each family member is a suspect...

Screenplay: Nikolaj Arcel, Rasmus Heisterberg

Distributor: Momentum

You should see it because: It's the first film based on phenomenally successful trilogy of crime novels by Swedish author Stieg Larsson.

See it if you liked: The Black Dahlia (2006), Zodiac (2007), Angels and Demons (2009)