The Girl Who Played with Fire (Flickan som lekte med elden) Reviews
Examiner.com
If you were fortunate enough to see the first film and enjoyed it, chances are you will also enjoy this entry.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Reel Film Reviews
The entertaining yet unspectacular atmosphere cements the movie's place as a mild disappointment...
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| Original Score: 3/4
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)
... Raises the stakes, telling a story that is at once further reaching and more intimate.
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| Original Score: A
Movies.com
The cinematography, almost like a tranquil counterpoint to the ugly crimes taking place on screen, make you feel like moving to Sweden would be the coolest, most gorgeous decision you ever made.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Flick Filosopher
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.
Critics' Choice Movies
An Audio Conversation with Swedish actress Noomi Rapace, star of The Girl Who Played With Fire, on KPFA Radio, San Francisco.
Common Sense Media
Part 2 of subtitled crime trilogy with same brutality, sex.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Movie Metropolis
Lisbeth is as much of a scourge as Clint Eastwood's Man with No Name, and just as mysterious, cool, and resilient.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Window to the Movies
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.
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| Original Score: 6/10
Moviedex
Thankfully, revelations within the complex and interwoven storyline occur just in the nick of time as to keep us engaged.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Combustible Celluloid
This is a pretty good setup for what might be a routine Hollywood thriller.
Draxblog Movie Reviews
Usprkos toga to je Larsson i kod nas ario i palio po knjiarama, hrvatski distributeri dosad nisu imali razumijevanja za vedsku trilogiju
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| Original Score: 6/10
Cinema Autopsy
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
...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.
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| Original Score: 86/100
MovieTime, ABC Radio National
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.
Sydney Morning Herald
The second film is more efficient than the first, less concerned with getting all the story on to the screen.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Trespass
It's a sequel that leaves you wanting more, its shortcomings not negating what remains a stylish, smart and cracking thriller.
The Age (Australia)
Director Daniel Alfredson taking over from Niels Arden Oplev, maintains the sometimes disconcerting mixture of violence and righteous investigation that characterise the series.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Herald Sun (Australia)
Viewed on its own merits, The Girl Who Played With Fire is still a classy and sophisticated entry to the thriller genre by contemporary standards.
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| Original Score: 4/5
ABC Radio Brisbane
Whilst it's not as memorable as the original, I've always got time for a well-written thriller.
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| Original Score: B
