Kitty's Corner

There are some films, that are bound to sell a lot of tickets: Batman and Bond-films for instance.

"Men who hate women" is certainly one of them. The film is based on a book by Stieg Larsson, a Swedish novelist who managed to write three books and a draft to a fourth before he died of a massive heart attack, only 50 years old. He died just before the first book in the series was published. Tough luck, eh?

Anyway, these books were really a big thing here. They are published in English now - and if you like a good crime novel, you should read them. They are really exciting.

The film is about Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist, who is hired to find out what happened to a girl that disappeared almost 40 years ago. He is getting help from a 24 year old hacker girl; she is pierced, tattooed and has a very violent background. She is mentally ill and has been declared incapable of managing her own affairs. She has photographic memory and is a true genius when it comes to finding peoples secrets. When she meets bastards she is a true predator, she doesn't take shit from nobody!

I was very curious if the film could live up to the book. After all, it must be pretty difficult to boil 550 pages down to 2½ hours of movie.

All in all it was like I expected. I believe you can appreciate this film without having read the book. It's a damn good story, and the actors played well, even though the persons don't look at all like I expected them to.

out of 6.