Friday, February 10, 2012

A Movie Review: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (original)

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. The European version of these movies concludes. Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Repace) spends a significant portion of the movie either in the hospital recovering from three gunshot wounds or in jail/court for the murders she is accused of committing in the second movie. It is now Mikael Blomkvist who must conduct a lot of the investigative research.

You might think that a movie where one of the lead characters spends much of her time in confined spaces might be a touch boring, but this movie is an intense conclusion to the trilogy. There isn’t a lot of suspense in terms of who is guilty or not. You honestly know who the bad guys and good guys are at this point in time. What is intense is not knowing the ending and so you don’t really know if more harm will come to Salander or Blomkvist – and considering the fact that this is a European movie based on a European book, one never knows.

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