10 Movie Murders That Were Utterly Impossible To Solve

6. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Laarson was, apparently, a big Agatha Christie fan. You can see why a man who dealt with actual right wing psychopaths in his day job as an investigative journalist would find reading fictional murder mysteries relaxing, let alone inspiring - published after his untimely death, the Millenium series of novels wound up being some of the most wildly popular whodunits of the modern era. Naturally they'd make the leap to the big screen, first in a series adapted in his native Sweden, and then in an English-language remake again helmed by that scamp David Fincher. Oh and the mystery at the heart of the first of those novels and subsequent big screen iteration is absolutely impossible for the audience to solve, since the books and films in question seem barely bothered about solving it themselves. Both versions of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo have their own unique strengths and weaknesses, but each also inherits a significant drawback from the source material. It's possible that audiences might've figured out the murderous secret of Martin, the brother of the missing girl Henrik Vanger hires antisocial hacker Lisbeth Salander and Mary Sue insert character Mikael Blomkvist to solve. There's absolutely no way they'd've pieced together what actually happened to Harriet, Henrik's grandniece, since even Martin doesn't know where she buggered off to. He's busy carrying on his father's legacy as a serial killer. And it seems that Laarson might've been more interested in that "mystery" instead of the one the story actually hang off.