Plot: This is a sequel and the movie spends time rebuilding the story from the previous film including how Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) is blackmailing her guardian. This film's complicated story involves a drug/prostitution ring and police corruption. Salander is accused of murdering two and then three people, and the police, her friend Bloomkvist and the criminals are all out to get her.
Review: The first half of the movie was too plot heavy and not very enjoyable, but it led to a dramatic confrontation at the end that was intense and made the whole worthwhile. The scriptwriter (Jonas Frykberg) simplified the story in the novel, but it was too complicated to follow anyway, and the richness of the characters was compromised. Lisbeth should have been smarter and more troubled. I would like to have seen some Monk-like physical ticks.
If this movie is evaluated as a free-standing work, then it fails as it is too complicated to follow without the novels or at least the first movie as a guide. If it is evaluated as part of the larger whole, then it stands up better. The character development in this movie is not strong enough alone to provide interesting characters. The complex story of the novel is probably unfilmable, but it did provide interesting situations for the characters to enact.
Noomi Rapace had some excellent scenes especially at the end. Michael Nyquist who played Bloomkwist was not interesting and none of his scenes were interesting.
The book was all about the exploitation of the woman in the human trafficking ring, but that was barely a sidelight here. This took away emotional intensity.
Cast:Noomi Raplace, Michael Nyquist
Directed by: Daniel Alfredson
Rating: 2.5 flasks
More: I liked the warpaint makeup Lisbeth wore in this interrogation scene. Great visual. Creepy.
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