The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2009) [Blu-ray]
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Rated:  R 
Starring: Annika Hallin, Hans Alfredson, Lennart Hjulstrom, Anders Ahlbom Rosendahl, Mikael Spreitz, Georgi Staykov, Lena Endre, Noomi Rapace, Sofia Ledarp, Michael Nyqvist, Jacob Ericksson, Niklas Hjulstrom.
Director: Daniel Alfredson
Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller
DVD Release Date: 01/25/2011

The final installment of Stieg Larsson's "Millennium" trilogy, following The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played With Fire, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest finds Lisbeth Salander fighting for her life in more ways than one. In an intensive care unit and charged with three murders, she will have to not only prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce the same rogue government security agency that sought to silence and destroy her. Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now, Lisbeth Salander is fighting back.

Cast Notes: Michael Nyqvist (Mikael Blomkvist), Noomi Rapace (Lisbeth Salander), Lena Endre (Erika Berger), Annika Hallin (Annika Giannini), Jacob Ericksson (Christer Malm), Sofia Ledarp (Malin Erikson), Anders Ahlbom (Dr. Peter Teleborian [as Anders Ahlbom Rosendahl]), Micke Spreitz (Ronald Niedermann [as Mikael Spreitz]), Georgi Staykov (Alexander Zalachenko), Mirja Turestedt (Monica Figuerola), Niklas Falk (Edklinth), Hans Alfredson (Evert Gullberg), Lennart Hjulström (Fredrik Clinton), Jan Holmquist (Hallberg), Niklas Hjulström (Ekström).

User Comment: MusicaEternal (katorak@hotmail.com) from Wales, 11 April 2010 • The final film in the Millennium Trilogy and what a great film is it, right up there with it's precursors.

We learn even more about Lisbeth's, hidden organisations, and how everything is linked. The pieces of the puzzle come together, and I felt the film explained almost everything pretty cleverly, though this does involve some concentration from the viewer, because some of the links are not emphasised that well and maybe can be missed.

This is more similar to the first one, in the style of directing and also the ruthless reporting is back. Less action than the first, but no less enthralling for it. There is a lot of tension in this movie, and it made for compulsive viewing.

These three films have turned me more onto more modern Swedish Cinema. I was always a fan of Bergman and I have seen a few movies over the last few years from there, but this makes me want to keep a closer eye on the Swedish Film Making Industry. Great success guys, I look forward to seeing much more cinema from Sweden. Now I will read the books.

Summary: Great ending, but I don't want it to end.

User Comment: denglidendekop from Copenhagen, Denmark, 17 November 2009 • Perspective: I am 25, Danish (thus understanding Swedish) and have not read the books.

The final movie covering Stieg Larssons Millennium trilogy ties all the pieces together and explains the deeper reasons for Lisbeth Salanders unreasonable treatment by society.

Compared to its predecessors, I found the first movie highly gripping for its unique roughness and interesting characters, while the sequel didn't really catch me due to a plain storyline and little creativity. This movie however is back on track, keeping a good pace of events and complexity.

If you have already followed Salander and Blomkvist during the previous books/movies, you will surely enjoy watching how the conspiracy is being unraveled through intense investigations and court trials. You will experience how the opposition crumble beneath Salander and Blomkvists combined efforts at exposing and confronting the deeper reasons for Salanders struggles, and how they piece the puzzle together to clear her name and taking down the shady factions of society.

The movie has a nice level of well thought out detail, but also a several logical breaches. You leave the cinema with a feeling of wanting to know much more about how the initial conspiracy evolved and how parts of the investigation (not involving the key characters) is carried out. This is likely due to the dept of Stieg Larssons books, being impossible to portrait in just 150 swift minutes. This may eventually be a teaser lurking me into reading the books.

Summary: Exciting recapitulation of the Millennium trilogy.

IMDb Rating (04/26/11): 6.8/10 from 15,489 users

Additional information
Copyright:  2009,  Music Box Films
Features:  • Theatrical Trailers - a high definition trailer for The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest and a series of previews for other productions on the Music Box release slate.
Subtitles:  English
Video:  Widescreen 1.85:1 Color
Screen Resolution: 1080p
Audio:  ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1
SWEDISH: Dolby Digital 5.1
Time:  2:09
DVD:  # Discs: 1 -- # Shows: 1
UPC:  705105742557
Coding:  [V3.5-A3.0] MPEG-4 AVC
D-Box:  No
Other:  Producers: Soren Staermose; Directors: Daniel Alfredson; running time of 129 minutes; Packaging: HD Case. Rated R for strong violence, some sexual material, and brief language.

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