"The Girl Who Played with Fire"

You can't help but love a character like Lisbeth Salander

Stieg Larrson wrote crime fiction that will never be forgotten, and not just because of his tragic death, but also because of his extensive skill to create plots and characters you either love, hate and/or will never forget.

"The Girl Who Played with Fire" is the second in the trilogy to be released onto the big screen, and does so almost as successfully as the first one did. It picks up the plot where we left Lisbeth Salander, a misfit and disturbed young hacker who's experienced more horror and hatred than you can imagine - Mikael Blomkvist, a leftist journalist and editor of the hard-hitting magazine "Millennium" - and Sweden presented as a dark modern world drowned in trafficking and corrupt heads of state. It gathers the treads and answers a few of the questions in which were open in the first film - but might have created a few more in the process.

Now, Swedish Crime Fiction has always had a certain level of entertainment and quality (especially if you compare it to Norwegian produced material), but this tops it none the less. It has morale, integrity, and brilliant actors; the newcomer Noomi Rapace in the role as Lisbeth Salander and a known face to the Swedish world of film and series; Michael Nyquist in the role as Mikael Blomkvist.

All I can really say about the plot is that it contains delightful scenes of psychological torture, smart action that doesn't become boring to watch, a plot which unravels more and more deep secrets and details - an overall entertaining and well-structured movie.

Enjoy this Scandinavian movie pearl, ladies and gentleman.

Sincerely
JanaMart