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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Flickan som lekte med elden) (2009)

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Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 150
Fresh: 104 | Rotten: 46

Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist remain extraordinarily well-suited to their roles, but the second installment in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy doesn't pack quite as much punch as the first.

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Average Rating: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 34
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 11

Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist remain extraordinarily well-suited to their roles, but the second installment in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy doesn't pack quite as much punch as the first.

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The second installment of author Stieg Larsson's best-selling "Millennium" trilogy gets translated to the big screen with this tale of a prominent magazine publisher who launches a comprehensive investigation into Swedish sex trafficking and political corruption. The publisher of "Millennium" magazine, Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) has built an empire on his ability to shake up the establishment. Approached by a young journalist with evidence that high-ranking Swedish officials are involved

Oct 26, 2010

$7.6M

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All Critics (150) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (106) | Rotten (46) | DVD (9)

The Girl Who Played with Fire, may not be as good as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but it's not chopped liver either.

August 4, 2010 Full Review Source: Film.com | Comment
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Delivers its first jolts moments after the opening credits and serves up surprisingly tender moments amidst the suspense and heart-pounding action.

August 4, 2010 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | Comment
Orlando Sentinel
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Resembles nothing so much as a workmanlike TV crime thriller.

July 16, 2010 Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor | Comment
Christian Science Monitor
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The Girl Who Played With Fire narrows instead of broadens, and while the final scenes are bloody indeed, they frustratingly raise questions the film doesn't care to answer for now.

July 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Boston Globe | Comment
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In Rapace, it has an actress who brings a memorable literary character to indelible movie life, as Vivien Leigh did for Scarlett O'Hara.

July 14, 2010 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | Comment
TIME Magazine
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Alfredson directs with a perceptive eye and a roving camera, using oblique angles for a script that unfolds with programmatic efficiency.

July 9, 2010 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | Comment
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The "Millennium" completist doesn't need to be told to pick this up, but would be well advised to understand that the set contains the TV version of the trilogy.

December 12, 2011 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

The entertaining yet unspectacular atmosphere cements the movie's place as a mild disappointment...

November 17, 2011 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
Reel Film Reviews

... Raises the stakes, telling a story that is at once further reaching and more intimate.

November 5, 2011 Full Review Source: Star-Democrat (Easton, MD) | Comment
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

Lisbeth Salander remains the riveting centerpiece of the two films that follow on from Dragon Tattoo, but, alas, her continuing story has been winnowed down in a way that makes it -- and her -- feel smaller than before.

December 13, 2010 Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher | Comment
Flick Filosopher

An Audio Conversation with Swedish actress Noomi Rapace, star of The Girl Who Played With Fire, on KPFA Radio, San Francisco.

November 30, 2010 Full Review Source: Critics' Choice Movies | Comment

Where the first film pinned you to your seat as its mystery unfolded, the plodding pace of the sequel will leave you fidgeting.

November 26, 2010 Full Review Source: Movie Talk | Comment

Part 2 of subtitled crime trilogy with same brutality, sex.

November 16, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

Lisbeth is as much of a scourge as Clint Eastwood's Man with No Name, and just as mysterious, cool, and resilient.

November 5, 2010 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

The saving grace in all this, perhaps, is how the character of Salander continues to feel like a unique alternative to a typical movie heroine.

November 2, 2010 Full Review Source: Window to the Movies | Comment
Window to the Movies

Thankfully, revelations within the complex and interwoven storyline occur just in the nick of time as to keep us engaged.

October 29, 2010 Full Review Source: Cut Print Review | Comment
Cut Print Review

This is a pretty good setup for what might be a routine Hollywood thriller.

October 29, 2010 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

Usprkos toga to je Larsson i kod nas ario i palio po knjiarama, hrvatski distributeri dosad nisu imali razumijevanja za vedsku trilogiju

October 28, 2010 Full Review Source: Draxblog Movie Reviews | Comment

Records onto film all the important moments found in the novel. These moments aren't made into compelling drama so much as crossed off some narrative checklist.

October 27, 2010 Full Review Source: CinemaBlend.com | Comment (1)
CinemaBlend.com

It?s a slicker and tenser film [than the first film] ... however, it?s also lost some of the first film?s icy edginess and sophistication, taking the series more into pulp fiction territory.

October 8, 2010 Full Review Source: Cinema Autopsy | Comment
Cinema Autopsy

...there is a lot of enjoyable art (and artiness) applied to what is essentially a pulp fiction. The villains are Bond-film cartoonish, and it was more fun to see Mikael and Lisbeth work together ... than it is to watch them slowly converge in this one.

September 26, 2010 Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | Comment
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

For fast-paced suspense, and for at least a hint of the passions which drove Stieg Larsson to expose the long reach of old fascist, and patriachal ideologies into the gloomy modern era of Swedish capitalist culture -- the film delivers.

September 24, 2010 Full Review Source: MovieTime, ABC Radio National | Comment
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Audience Reviews for The Girl Who Played with Fire (Flickan som lekte med elden)

Following up the amazing Girl With The Dragon Tattoo film was a tall order. This was no where near as good as the first movie and seemed to be very haphazard in patching together important parts of the book while leaving the parts out that might make sense. The books excellent the movie is good but not great.

February 13, 2011
jmanard52

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Discounting the weak and slow beginning, this second part in the Millenium trilogy is just as enthralling as the original. I long pushed off to watch it, after hearing about all the low to luke-warm opinions, but it actually proved to be a very worthy sequel. In the first 30 min you'll be tempted to hit the

September 9, 2009
CloudStrife84
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Foreign Titles

  • Verdammnis (DE)
  • Millénium 2 - La Fille qui rêvait d'un bidon d'essence et d'une allumette (FR)
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