The Girl with The David Fincher Tattoo
I think I liked this one a little more than the original. The first did do some things a little better, like not having some of the extraneous stuff that this suffered from (The tattoo parlour in particular). Fincher unleashed his inner Roman Polanski, the story in all it's iterations has a lot of themes common Polanski's films, sexual crimes, misogyny, an isolated wandering protagonist, so Fincher took some queues from him visually. Of course overall visually it's amazing. It's Fincher.
Rooney Mara's Salander feels more sympathetic than Rapace's iteration, not necessarily saying the performance was better, but more-so the script. Combining two characters from the first into one, served to add some loneliness to Salander. Mara's Lisbeth genuinely wishes people would accept her and be friends with her, Rapace's was a *****ebag. In fact Steve Zalian and David Fincher are smart to use the characters sadness as an excuse for the completely improbable and dumb May-December romance.
One thing I'll agree with that I've heard, is that some of the music sounds like off cuts from The Social Network. It does.
Good stuff.