The last time he saw Lisbeth Salander, she decided HAD A crime ten years ago, a serial murderer brought to justice in the rough, exposed a world of unregenerate Nazis and, finally, become financially independent.
But in the world’s best selling Stieg Larsson, happy endings rarely last for long.
And so, that girl with the dragon tattoo is now back as “The Girl Who Played with Fire,” a worthy – if too often, careful – follow-up hit first imported.
Again, Noomi Rapace – which looked grim and lethal multiple piercings – returns as Lisbeth, punk hacker. The same applies to Michael Nyqvist as Mikael stolen, lefty journalist who is your partner in solving crimes.
And, of course, are back Larsson also personal issues – family’s long hidden crimes, sexual violence against women and intricate conspiracy engineered and maintained by political powers.
But all this reprise feel a little like a letdown. Part of it is history itself, built and maintained by Mikael and Lisbeth FEW separated until the final minutes. In the first episode, cool as an emotional fire Mikael COUNTERWEIGHT ACTED Lisbeth, here, really the server does not work at all.
And much of the slight disappointment eating management, Undertaker by Daniel Alfredson. In the first film, Niels Arden Oplov made a kind of visual poetry, photos, computer code and data online, converting images to create motion pictures, literally, Alfredson is a much more mundane, just the facts type .
Still, the film is smart and watchable. (It helps not so much as the graphic sexual violence that was in the First Installment). There is a murderer who seems to have based on “From Russia with Love.” There is a very serious fight scene in the future, too. (Must be that pro Paulo Roberto throwing blows?)
And there’s the usual third act Big Reveal – this time the discovery of a secret involving one of our amateur detectives.
As much as playing with fire, never really thorny Lisbeth Simple things hot in this sequel. A lot of bad guys are kicking where it hurts most; the really bad ones are just dead. But, like median films in most trilogies, this movie feels although more time is like going to create things out later that the fulfillment of the promises of ITS now.
But that’s okay. ”The girl who kicked the hornet’s nest” is coming this fall.
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