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The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest
Bringing the Millennium series trilogy by the late Swedish author Stieg Larsson to a conclusion, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest provides slight redemption for those that loved the first film and hated the second (like this reviewer).
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Niels Arden Oplev directed the first film, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and his sure direction and the accessibility of the storyline with its close placement of the two main characters Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) and Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) made for grand viewing. The second film, The Girl Who Played with Fire pushed the story forward but at the expense of the viewer’s enjoyment of seeing Salander and Blomkvist together, they didn’t share screen time together until the final few scenes.
In the last film that trend continues and when they finally do meet for one last scene together, it is a bit of an anticlimax. This shortcoming is made up for (just) by an engaging court case and judicial conclusion that is populist at heart and traditional in the sense that the bad guys finally getting their comeuppance. Daniel Alfredson directed the two last films and their gestation as a television mini series is felt throughout.
Even with the uneven success of actualising the books as films, the trilogy is still quite engaging and its tale of intrigue and skulduggery at the highest level are easy to get lost in. Now that the third film is out, taking the three films as one long production might provide a more satisfying viewer experience.
Rob Hudson
www.dragontattoofilm.com
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