Review of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2009) by Enrica C — 20 Mar 2012

Better than its previous installment. "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" is more action packed than the previous movie, the plot is well developed and the overall result is really good and similar to the book. Among the three movies, it's probably the closest one to the book -- I almost enjoyed it more than the book itself which was boring and difficult to read in the first pages.

I did like Noomi Rapace here. For some reason she was almost as a pictured her while reading the books -- I can't say the same for movies 1 and 2. She was really convincing this time. Same for Michael Nyqvist who, I have to admit is a really great Mikael Blomkvist, he really reminds me the Mikael I've pictured in my mind.

When asked: was it really necessary to remake this trilogy? Well, my answer is absolutely yes. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by David Fincher is better than the Swedish movie, and it's also more true to its characters -- I really hope that also the second and third movies will see a Hollywood remake. It's much needed in my opinion and Rooney Mara is just a great Lisbeth, I loved her performance in the first movie --.

Plus, the Swedish version of the movie made such a lot of minus changes and I'm not really sure I liked that. As said before, to me details is what counts the most - the Swedish production decided for some reason to change many little details, for example the scene at the very ending of movie 3. Seeing Mikael walking away from Lisbeth's door wasn't exactly what had happened in the book -- a minus change but still a very unpleasant one.

But the books were written by a Swedish author, so I still think that watching these three Swedish movies is a must if you liked the books -- recommended if you loved the books.