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Shaun E The Girl Who Played With Fire does not have the same shock value as its predecessor, but still packs a punch in terms of intrigue and complex storytelling. This second outing for the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is where a lot of Lisbeth's Salander's back story comes into play. A complex web of conspiracy is unravelled until the fairly blood filled ending of the film which leaves unfinished business for the third film to deal with. This film has some additional story elements built into it which place Lisbeth in a much more vulnerable position than was seen to be the case in the first film. Yes, she experienced much brutality in the first film, but some carelessness, loyalty and revenge lead her to act alone. Acting was brilliant and dubbing was mostly excellent. Only in a couple of places did things seem out of place in this regard. Storytelling was very much the order of the day - over action. It is a film with almost nothing in the way of special effects and delivers without needing to add these factors in. All in all, setting itself up for the third film which has a lot resting on it. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/03/24 Full Review Audience Member Qualquer filme com Noomi rapace é bom, Ótima atriz Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Manny P Diminishing returns I'm afraid. When you change the director, it ultimately loses its grip on the source material. The same thing happened with the American remakes. What is a cracking set of books, could have cemented it's place with a cult movie following, but that, sadly, remains with the books and nothing else. Rated 2.5/5 Stars • Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/13/22 Full Review Audience Member Better than the first. It was nice to see an adaptation of the second. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review dustin d The Girl Who Played with Fire is slightly better than the previous film as it relies less on unlikely coincidences to move the plot forward. It is still a little too enamored with Lisbeth Salamander, Sweden is still a hotbed of misogyny and sex trafficking, and Stieg Larsson's stand-in, Mikael Blomkvist, is still a courageous investigative journalist/activist, morally and intellectually superior to his subjects, like all activist journalists are. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review dave s Like its predecessor The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire has an interesting premise but is marred by an absurdly complicated plot and enough characters to fill a rolodex. Nutshelling it as simply as humanly possible, Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) returns to Sweden and is almost immediately accused of triple murder. Meanwhile, the gang at the Millennium are investigating a sex trafficking ring which eventually ties in with Lisbeth's father and a bunch of seemingly incompetent cops and a German boxer who looks and acts like the Terminator and then things get confusing. It's probably worth watching for the performance of the steely-eyed Rapace, but beyond that, there's just too much talking by too many characters. Rated 2/5 Stars • Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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