The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

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Gosh, I didn't like this much at all. This third "Girl Who" movie ties up the not-particularly-interesting loose ends from the previous two movies. Why?

It picks up where the previous movie (The Girl Who Played with Fire) left off, with überhacker Lisbeth Salander being taken off to a hospital to recover from her wounds. As is her father, Zalachenko. But it soon becomes clear that there's a Massive Conspiracy afoot to hush up the whole story, as it would involve disclosing … um … a whole bunch of corruption and unsavory behavior. Or something like that.

Anyway, the bad guys are willing to resort to murder to maintain the coverup. (Because otherwise, you see, people might get suspicious.) So they send a dying comrade to the hospital to do in both Lisbeth and Zalachenko; he only half-succeeds, then commits suicide, not being able to take a bullet in the brain quite as well as Lisbeth.

And then it gets really tedious for a couple hours—seems longer—as the shadowy forces of the Massive Conspiracy attempt to get Lisbeth incarcerated for something (I'm hazy on exactly what). But her friend, investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist has resources of his own: he tries to unpeel the conspiratorial onion, and provide enough ammunition to get Lisbeth out of her legal jam.

It's boring and talky. Lisbeth isn't given much to do, save at the very end.


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