Noomi Rapace, who played the title character in the Swedish adaptation of the late Stieg Larsson's insanely popular novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and its sequels, delivered a performance that will be difficult to top.  That said, I like the look of Rooney Mara as the Americanized Lisbeth Salander, precisely because she's not what I expected.  Mara previously appeared in The Social Network for Dragon Tattoo director David Fincher, but that character bore very little resemblance to Salander.  Just take a look at these new set photos of Mara in costume, as well as one of her costar Daniel Craig, who plays journalist Mikael Blomkvist.