Review of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2009) by Darryl K — 21 Jul 2012

While this final act isn't really necessary in "The Girl..." Trilogy (aka The Millennium Trilogy), it brings all the loose ends together and makes everything all nice and taken care of. Frankly I found some of it hard to follow (a lot of 'who is this guy again?'), but it was nice to see elements from the first film finally come to fruition here.

As with the previous installment in the series, the direction was fairly bland here, not really using any techniques to heighten the suspense (or really lack there of) or connect the audience with the characters.

I can only remember seeing one dolly/zoom that attempted to emphasize the emotions of a character and accent an important detail. On top of that, there are many elements of the story that felt unnecessary.

For example, Neidermann's character felt completely irrelevant in this film. The story here would have been tighter without that element because his plot isn't related at all to what is happening (and after the main story has been resolved, the movie goes on another 30 minutes just to take care of his character).

But seeing this is trying to follow the book and wrap up all various elements, I guess it can't be left out. As it is, for fan's of the series, TGWKtHN is a mediocre addition to the saga of Lizabeth.

For all others, this isn't a 'must see.'.