The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest Reviews
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
The Swedish trilogy trundles to a wobbly finale that's heavy on plot and cheap theatrics, but light on the dark, mesmerizing energy that made the first film so watchable.
Full Review
| Original Score: 3/5
DCist
It lacks a certain cinematic depth and scale, and plays out more like an epic episode of Law & Order. There are plenty of smart plot turns to follow, but at this length, the minutiae of the case begins to get a little tedious.
Full Review
| Original Score: 5.7/10
Las Vegas Weekly
The ending at least offers some satisfying comeuppance, but it's a bit of a chore getting there.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2.5/5
San Diego Union-Tribune
Despite being packaged as a thriller, "Hornet's Nest" lacks the urgency and suspense of the previous films.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2/4
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Dark and glacially paced way to wrap up a trilogy
Full Review
| Original Score: C-
Little White Lies
The Girl Who Makes Us Wish We Were Anywhere Else.
Full Review
| Original Score: 1/5
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
...could be read as the passion of Lisbeth Salander, as she undergoes a kind of secular crucifixion at the hands of the Swedish establishment ...
Full Review
| Original Score: 85/100
iamROGUE
... not saying that this is bad film, it is just not nearly as intense and intriguing as you'd expect after watching the original.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2.5/5
Birmingham Post
This is the most disappointing end to a trilogy since Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2/5
Top CriticIt's a rather wobbly blend of courtroom drama and loose ends tied, albeit rather leisurely.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2.5/4
An overgenerous helping of recapitulation, a long procedural that's more about Lisbeth's persecutors and protectors than about her.
Florida Times-Union
A bunch of evil old men get their comeuppance in 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest,' but the girl who messes with their nest does hardly anything at all.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2/4
Concrete Playground
Its seems as if the production has taken a bullet to the brain just like its heroine.
AskMen.com
It's predominantly a court procedural and a very redundant one, since all we're doing is re-capping what happened in the first two films and waiting two and a half hours for the verdict.
Full Review
| Original Score: 44/100
IGN Movies
Hornet's Nest proves that even foreign trilogies are not immune to the curse of the disappointing third film.
Full Review
| Original Score: 6 out of 10
St. Paul Pioneer Press
The main thing that storyline reveals is that Steig Larsson's books simply aren't very well-plotted.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2.5/4
News of the World
The Matrix: Revolutions of the Millennium Trilogy.
Full Review
| Original Score: 1/5
Filmcritic.com
criers and the soft of heart need not apply
Full Review
| Original Score: 3/5
CinemaBlend.com
Alfredson is merely interested in repeating the highlights, recreating the best moments of the book but also the worst, resulting in a film that hits with precision as often as it seems to drag endlessly.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2.5/5
Slant Magazine
Alfredson's empty aesthetics mimic Hollywood conventions but merely exacerbate the hollowness of this entire affair.
Full Review
| Original Score: .5/4
