MOVIE - The Girl Who Played With Fire

Mesmerizing - but not as good as The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Released 7-9-10
R (2:09)
Sunday 8/22/10 with Shane at the Loft
RT: 66 cag: 88
Director: Daniel Alfredson
in Swedish with subtitles
from the book by Stieg Larsson
Noomi Rapace & Michael Nyqvist

Lisbeth Salander is implicated in three murders. She tries to figure out what's going on without any help, but slowly her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, puts clues together as well. She's such a loner....and for good reason. This story is entirely linked to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and I can't imagine you'd know what was going on if you hadn't seen that first installment. It's exciting, interesting, and easy to follow. However, it didn't grab me up quite as much as the first one did. Still good, though.

There were several places that the subtitles were in white on such a light background that they couldn't be read. This was frustrating, and made you come out of your own mind to realize that you were reading along while watching a movie....you weren't part of it. Disconcerting.