Following hot on the heals of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo the second film in the Millennium
trilogy finds our heroine Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) back in Sweden
following a year abroad. While she tries to keep a low profile and lives of the
wealth accumulated in the first film, journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael
Nyqvist) is helping a young employee with an exposé of Swedish human
trafficking and prostitution which threatens to expose high ranking officials.
After three grisly murders the police have Lisbeth as the only suspect but
separately she and Blomkvist attempt to prove her innocence.
I’ve never read any of Stieg Larsson’s novels but really
enjoyed the first film in the series and to a lesser extent the pointlessAmerican remake. The shock and suspense of the first film feels far away from
the sequel which is unremarkable by comparison. The plot is thicker and much
more confusing and overall the tension from the first film is greatly
diminished.
