The Girl who Played with Fire (2009)
(Flickan som lekte med elden)
Country: SV/DK/GER
Technical: col 129m
Director: Daniel Alfredson
Cast: Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre, Peter Andersson
Synopsis:
Lisbeth Salander, the heroine of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, returns to Sweden and is immediately targeted by underworld types at the same time as Millennium magazine is about to publish an investigation into sex trafficking implicating a number of eminent police, security and establishment personages.
Review:
Like many midway films in trilogies, this one does not really ever get going, lacking as it does a good narrative hook (the sex scandal subplot is familiar terrain after all); instead it contents itself witth keeping the pot boiling, the ending being particularly open in this regard. More than before, one is required to accept on faith the various ICT-aided leaps of intuition by which Lisbeth and Micke find their way from location to location, and the premature burial finish is another hard pill to swallow. Nevertheless, this is professionally assembled entertainment which continues to strike a Jason Bourne-like blow for abused women the world over.
(Flickan som lekte med elden)
Country: SV/DK/GER
Technical: col 129m
Director: Daniel Alfredson
Cast: Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre, Peter Andersson
Synopsis:
Lisbeth Salander, the heroine of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, returns to Sweden and is immediately targeted by underworld types at the same time as Millennium magazine is about to publish an investigation into sex trafficking implicating a number of eminent police, security and establishment personages.
Review:
Like many midway films in trilogies, this one does not really ever get going, lacking as it does a good narrative hook (the sex scandal subplot is familiar terrain after all); instead it contents itself witth keeping the pot boiling, the ending being particularly open in this regard. More than before, one is required to accept on faith the various ICT-aided leaps of intuition by which Lisbeth and Micke find their way from location to location, and the premature burial finish is another hard pill to swallow. Nevertheless, this is professionally assembled entertainment which continues to strike a Jason Bourne-like blow for abused women the world over.
(Flickan som lekte med elden)
Country: SV/DK/GER
Technical: col 129m
Director: Daniel Alfredson
Cast: Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre, Peter Andersson
Synopsis:
Lisbeth Salander, the heroine of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, returns to Sweden and is immediately targeted by underworld types at the same time as Millennium magazine is about to publish an investigation into sex trafficking implicating a number of eminent police, security and establishment personages.
Review:
Like many midway films in trilogies, this one does not really ever get going, lacking as it does a good narrative hook (the sex scandal subplot is familiar terrain after all); instead it contents itself witth keeping the pot boiling, the ending being particularly open in this regard. More than before, one is required to accept on faith the various ICT-aided leaps of intuition by which Lisbeth and Micke find their way from location to location, and the premature burial finish is another hard pill to swallow. Nevertheless, this is professionally assembled entertainment which continues to strike a Jason Bourne-like blow for abused women the world over.