Kitty's Corner

I went to see a movie I've been waiting to hit the cinemas for a while, namely "The Girl who played with Fire". The film is the second of a trilogy; I reviewed the first film, Men who hate women, earlier this year. I gave it 5 stars out of 6.

The Girl who played with fire takes over where the first film ended. Lisbeth Salander, a small, tattooed, pierced hackergirl suddenly finds herself wanted for 3 murders, that she didn't commit. Some bad guys that are into trafficking and abusing of east European and Russian girls, drug dealing and lots of other scary stuff is paid by some of really bad guys to get rid of her.

Mikael Blomqvist, the journalist whose life she saved in the first movie, is trying to help. He is involved because two of the persons who were murdered was actually journalists, and writing about trafficking for his magazine.

Let me say it like this: People who didn't either read the books or saw the first film doesn't need to spend money on this movie. The plot is too weak, and assumes that you know what the first movie was about. There's not much "catching up" for newcomers. The movie uses way too little time on the interesting subject trafficking can be - it would be easy to spend more time on this topic!

The interaction between the two main characters were almost non existing - and that is a mistake in my opinion. The sullen goth hacker girl looses her charm when she doesn't have the journalist to play up to. And the journalist is just plain boring without her.

out of 6.

(PS. The last part of the trilogy is planned to hit the cinemas in November. I loved the book, but I'm afraid the movie is just as disappointing as this one. )