I watched THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO last night, and I think I may have just seen the best film of the year. It was absolutely mesmerizing.

I’m not going to go into the plot of the film or anything (you can read about that on Wikipedia), but I will say that it is a superbly crafted thriller, and Lisbeth, the punk main character played by Noomi Rapace, is one of the more uniquely compelling anti-heroines I’ve seen in the movies in a long time.

A quick note: it is a movie made by some damn foreigners from Sweden, so you’ll either need to watch it with the subtitles, or, if you prefer to be a lame doorknob, with the English dubbing. Me, I can’t stand to watch anything dubbed, as nothing will pull me out of a movie faster than dialogue not matching a character’s mouth.

I’ve yet to read the book that the movie is based on — though I did order it last night — since most movies are generally inferior to the original source material, and I like to enjoy the movie based on its own merits first.

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO was so good, though, that now I’m curious to see how the book stacks up in comparison.