You wait ages for a good revenge thriller to come along, and then Dead Man Down (15A) packs two revenge scenarios into the same movie.

Like so many European film-makers, Niels Arden Oplev has answered Hollywood’s siren song.

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Familiarity breeds nagging comparisons rather than contempt in David Fincher’s English-language remake of Niels Arden Oplev’s acclaimed crime thriller, adapted from the best-seller by Stieg Larsson.

Nobody does dysfunction quite like the Swedish cinema and with this complex and atmospheric thriller, based on the first of Stieg Larsson’s trilogy, we get an island full of dysfunctional people and a 40-year-old mystery.