Trailer:
Criteria:
0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time.
1/5 – Barely worth any time.
2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a little.
3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used more.
4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around – characters, music, theme, storyline, etc.
"The Girl Who Played With Fire" is the second movie in a trilogy based on the Millenium trilogy by Stieg Larsson. This was released in Sweden in September of 2009. This is available on Netflix in Swedish with English subtitles.
Swedish trilogy versus the English-spoken 2011 version of "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo":
* I originally knocked the 2011 movie down for Lisbeth threatening her guardian (make good reports, be abstinant, and do not try to have your stomach tattoo removed or I will put it on your forehead for everyone to see; I'll be watching). However, this movie ("The Girl Who Played With Fire") had that in there.
* The 2011 movie had a fond-connection between Lisbeth and her former guardian, which I found odd but in the "Played with Fire" movie, she was communicating well with her former guardian.
NOTE: I will be editting the other post because of these two tidbits, but not enough to change my rating.
Plotline:
It has been a year since Lisbeth and Blomkvist worked the Vanger case. Lisbeth has been travelling with the money that she ciphoned off of Wennerstrom. She comes back and hooks back up with her girlfriend, who is a bigger character in this movie. Lisbeth checks on her guardian Bjurman and finds that he is visiting tattoo removal sites and not writing glowing reviews, for which she threatens him with his gun (at his home) that if he didn't do what she told him to, she'd kill him. Unfortunately she was not wearing gloves at that point, which comes back to bite her later.
A journalist comes to Millenium and tells them that he and his criminology-studying girlfriend have been researching into sex trafficking, finding a few johns [buying customers] that they could roast in a public article through the Millenium, if Millenium said it would be alright with them. This journalist is given a desk and a 2 month contract with Millenium and just as they are ready to publish the findings, the journalist and his girlfriend are murdered. Blomkvist is the first person to see them dead, as he was going over to get hard copy evidence to bring back to the shop. Of course, that makes him a buffet to other reporters.
At first they do not have anyone to pin it on until they find out that Bjurman was also murdered, in his home, and that Lisbeth's finger prints are on the gun. The police jump at the idea that Lisbeth is the main suspect, considering her past, and start trying to find her. Meanwhile, others are also trying to find her by beating up (and trying to burn) Lisbeth's girlfriend.
While going through the investigation, everyone said that Lisbeth was guilty of the 3 murders but Blomkvist denies it and defends for her. The two of them also find out some important information about the murderers, information that I found slightly shocking, which gives it a bit of a twist at the end.
Music:
I did not notice any specifically.
Character Development:
As this is a sequel, the characters have already been developed. However, Blomkvist also learns about Lisbeth's past and where she has come from [learning that mysterious side of hers]. It helps him understand her better and care more for her sake. In fact, SPOILERS, at the end, it is Blomkvist that comes to the rescue, finding her near dead and calling the ambulance.
Honestly, I liked this one better than the first movie. This one had a bit more of an edge to it than the first in the series. There was one action sequence where a guy was driving down a sidewalk to follow someone who had captured Lisbeth's girlfriend - pretty exciting. :-)
I cannot think of anything else to say about this movie, so rating!
4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe
used a bit more to the movie.
4/5 - I found this movie to be a bit edgy without being too dark. The first one had been much darker than this one, even while telling the story. This one told the story, had a pretty straight plotline (that was easy to understand), and a simple theme [trying to find the true murderer while trying to help a friend].
I would not recommend this one for children, since it is rated R and it does have family fight-to-the-death fights. However, if you watch the first Millenium movie and managed to have a sliver of interest in the characters, you should watch the second movie.
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