VIDEO REVIEW | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

American director David Fincher's take on the literary phenomenon The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is one of the season's highest-profile films.

The first instalment of an English-language, three-film retelling of Stieg Larssons bestselling Millennium Trilogy, Dragon Tattoo has generatedbuzz at every step, from the casting of Daniel Craig andRooney Maraas disgraced journalist Mikael Blomqvist and brilliant hacker Lisbeth Salander, respectively, to details about the blistering soundtrack by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.

A recent kerfuffleover a major U.S. film critic'sdecision to break tradition and post an early reviewof the movie has also kept theR-rated thriller in the headlines.

CBC's Eli Glasner looks at whether the much-anticipated film, opening Tuesday, lives up to the hype.