SnoopyStyle Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) has been living off of the stolen money from Wennerström. It's been a year of traveling and since she had contacted Mikael Blomkvist. She returns to Sweden to warn her guardian Nils Bjurman against trying to remove his tattoo. Meanwhile, a young couple brings a story of trafficking girls with names of high officials to Blomkvist. They are killed as well as Bjurman with his own gun. Lisbeth is the prime suspect with her fingerprints on the gun.I watched the movie again and realize that it's missing the wintery cold moodiness of the original. The feel of the movie is reduced to a solid Euro-thriller. Lisbeth takes more of a center stage as the case gets connected to her past. That's probably a good thing since she was the breakout star of the original. However the original's desolate feel is very much missed and it also misses the direct interaction between Lisbeth and Mikael.

Loubie Smith compared to the amazing books this film is dreadful. possibly because it is way too short to fit in everything that is important in the book but the writers should of thought about that before cutting scenes out. for example Lisabeth finds out about Dag and Mia's research before they are killed from Mikael's laptop, she visits them at their home the night they are shot and that's all you know for a long time since she doesn't admit or deny it to anyone. she never goes to see Miriam in the hospital, in fact she feels terrible guilt and doesn't face her in that book. Paulo and Miriam beat niederman (spelled incorrectly) in the warehouse by temporarily knocking him out and running for the woods, he then burns the place down to conceal evidence, not like the film does it where they are inside. there are quite a few bits missing to be honest but most of them are small, still very annoying to a fan of the book. such a shame since the actors/actresses did a good job, although Lisabeth is played a bit softly compared to the written character

Luigi Di Pilla I watched the Swedish-German original version. But I liked the first part The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo / Verblendung with Daniel Craig much more than this sequel. Why? Cause the cinematography was better than in Verdammnis. I found the picture was too frozen here with lot of dark colors. Therefore I have got some very nice images from Sweden. Then sorry, I saw this solid thriller with German audio that destroyed the atmospheric dialogs from the great actors that spoke in their Swedish language. The action scenes were well executed and it was never boring. Now I am curious to see the last part Vergebung that will be still the original version. At least I will be prepared. Anyway, congratulations to the writer Stieg Larsson that created three great episodes with full of suspense and intrigues. Damn good 7/10.

blanche-2 I'm going with the Swedish films for this trilogy, which is also being made in the U.S. starring Rooney Mara. Haven't seen the one that's been released.I'll be honest here. "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" was hard to watch in some sections. I thought it was good, but rape and violence aren't really my thing.This trilogy was made for Swedish TV, so these films have been cut. Apparently "The Girl Who Played with Fire" has 60 minutes missing. Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) goes away for a year and then returns to Sweden. Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) is still editor of Millennium magazine. An investigative journalist has approached them about a tell-all article on human trafficking involving women from Eastern Europe and some major buyers, and the journalist is ready to name names. Blomkvist gives the okay for the story, but the journalist and his girlfriend, who was working on another aspect of the story, are both murdered. As well, Lisbeth's awful court-appointed guardian is found dead also. Lisbeth is suspected of all three murders and has to go on the run. She and Mikael both work on trying to find out who framed her, which has to be connected to the trafficking story.The case winds up bringing some of Lisbeth's family secrets to the fore.Very well done, less gritty than the first, with a wonderful performance again by Rapace. It didn't have the hard edge to it that the first film had, possibly because of a change in director. However, well worth seeing.