The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest Reviews
October 29, 2019
The most unfortunate part of the The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest is its heroine has nothing to do but sit in a hospital, prison cell and courtroom until the last five minutes of the movie.
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| Original Score: 1.7/5
August 4, 2017
... wraps up the tale with more efficiency than excitement.
March 11, 2016
A two and a half hour film, the poor script, infrequent action scenes and unforgivably anti-climactic conclusion make it feel like its taking place in real time.
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| Original Score: 2/5
March 3, 2011
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
March 2, 2011
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
March 2, 2011
Its seems as if the production has taken a bullet to the brain just like its heroine.
February 24, 2011
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
January 25, 2011
Director Daniel Alfredson goes through the motions of the exposition-heavy plot with more efficiency than excitement...
November 29, 2010
Much of it still plays like bad Thomas Harris...
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| Original Score: 2/5
November 29, 2010
One final course of Europudding that may leave audiences feeling less satisfied than simply tired and bloated.
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| Original Score: 1/5
November 29, 2010
A more apt title would be 'The Girl Who Sat Quietly in a Dimly Lit Room'.
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| Original Score: 2/5
November 29, 2010
This is the most disappointing end to a trilogy since Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3.
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| Original Score: 2/5
November 29, 2010
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.
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| Original Score: 2/4
November 29, 2010
The third and worst of Stieg Larsson's trilogy is poorly directed, under-energised and unthrilling.
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| Original Score: 1/5
November 29, 2010
As well as being conventional, The Girl Who Kicked is also confusing, dull and grubby (do we really need to see examples from a child-porn site?).
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| Original Score: 2/5
November 29, 2010
Is the Millennium Trilogy over? Can we go home?
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| Original Score: 1/5
November 29, 2010
The Girl Who Makes Us Wish We Were Anywhere Else.
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| Original Score: 1/5
November 29, 2010
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest falls back on the formula which has brought the series this far, that is, inflicting trauma and abuse on Lisbeth.
November 28, 2010
...could be read as the passion of Lisbeth Salander, as she undergoes a kind of secular crucifixion at the hands of the Swedish establishment ...
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| Original Score: 85/100
November 26, 2010
Punk-Goth computer hacker Lisbeth Salander is such a fabulously spiky character ... that it's a crying shame her film adventures should conclude so limply.