The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest Reviews
TheShiznit.co.uk
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest doesn't exactly give the Millennium trilogy the explosive send-off it deserves, and stacked against the other two movies in the series, it's perhaps the weakest story of the three.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Examiner.com
This film ends up being more of a courtroom drama, and yet it's almost as equally thrilling as the first film in the series.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Movie Habit
Will make no sense to those who haven't seen the first two or read the books
Reel Film Reviews
Unlike its two predecessors, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest boasts a briskly-paced opening half hour that proves effective at immediately drawing the viewer into the movie...
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| Original Score: 3/4
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)
They cannot overcome completely the redundant, static nature of much of the novel, but they put up a good fight.
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| Original Score: A-
At the Movies (Australia)
For me the most deadening aspect of these films is the presence of Michael Nykvist as Blomqvist; he seems to have a personality by-pass, and remains expressionless at all times, no matter what's going on.
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| Original Score: 3/5
The Age (Australia)
The best thing that can be said about the excruciatingly dull, badly made closing chapter in this punishingly bad Swedish crime trilogy is that it really whets the appetite for the upcoming American version.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Concrete Playground
Its seems as if the production has taken a bullet to the brain just like its heroine.
Sydney Morning Herald
Seeing the first two films -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire -- will make the third film more satisfying.
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| Original Score: 4/5
FILMINK (Australia)
While the least satisfying instalment in the trilogy, this still throbs with a slow-burning tension and provides an appropriate farewell to a compelling series.
Urban Cinefile
It's a story with something to say and a powerful way of saying it
Urban Cinefile
At 142 minutes, it's long with some confusion, but the luminous presence of its star Noomi Rapace makes it well worth the journey
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Lisbeth Salander, played by Noomi Rapace, spends most of the story constrained -- first in the hospital, then in prison. What fun is that?
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| Original Score: 5/10
CinemaBlend.com
The third and final entry in Stieg Larsson's enormously successful series is perhaps the least thrilling, but it's easily the most satisfying.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Parallax View
Director Daniel Alfredson goes through the motions of the exposition-heavy plot with more efficiency than excitement...
Common Sense Media
Finale of dark subtitled Swedish trilogy still very violent.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Flicks.co.nz
Semi-satisfying, if you can keep up.
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| Original Score: 3/5
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.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
The gap between this and Dragon Tattoo is pretty big -- this won't be on my '10 Best' list and Tattoo might -- but as the rest of the story, it does nicely.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Shadows on the Wall
While the events are fascinating and entertaining, the film itself is less emotionally involving or viscerally thrilling.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
