Hammerman Ikon

Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

Flickan som lekte med elden (The Girl Who Played With Fire)
2009
**½
Director: Daniel Alfredson
Cast: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre, Peter Andersson, Micke Spreitz

Lisbeth Salander's court-appointed guardian and a couple who are about to expose a sex trafficking ring are found killed, and she becomes the main suspect. Coming after The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, the second part of the Millennium trilogy is a more streamlined film but its murder mystery is rather uninteresting. The gritty realism of the first film is gone, now we get a super villain and a number of incredibly implausible twists. We do learn Lisbeth's backstory but the star journalist Mikael Blomkvist is nothing but a bystander this time. Followed by The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest.