Noomi Rapace returns as Steig Larsson tough as hell girl, Lisbeth Salander, in the second installment of the Millennium series. This movie picks up where the The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo left off with the tattooed heroine traveling the world then returns to Sweden to try and live a luxurious life, but with Lisbeth Salander nothing in her life is what she expects. Mikael Blomkvist returns to Stockholm and picks up with his executive job at Millennium magazine. A new reporter comes in and has a hot story with controversial context that involves high society men involved with sex trafficking. When these men find out about this unpublished story they stop at nothing to put an end to it, but when the reporter and his girlfriend are found dead along with Lisbeth's guardian. All eyes turn to finding her because the murder weapon surfaces up with her fingerprints on it. Her past catches up with her and reveals some shocking details of her childhood and the secrets that surround her family. Blomkvist and the rest of Sweden are on the hunt for Lisbeth, but her past has strengthen her to with stand the hard battle that is coming.
Since The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, was such a big success I was expecting the same greatness of this movie but I was shocked how The Girl Who Played with Fire's directing was awful. The film looked low budget when it probably had a massive budget to work with knowing that the first movie broke Swedish box office records. The director, producer and the score composer where all changed and that was what lagged a lot, but the plot, and actors that returned was complete perfection. All in all I still would recommend people to watch this movie and I would strongly recommend to watch out for the third installment, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest that will come out at the Flint Institute of Arts Dec. 10,11 and 12.
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