Lisbeth Salander’s story is enough to ignite the inner goth in us all.
A pick-up after the second film, if not as assured as the first. Rapace sets a high watermark for Rooney Mara in David Fincher’s remakes.
As the film leaks tension and mystery, your main feeling by the end may be relief, but Rapace still gives magnificent goth glower.
Not so much buzzzzzz as zzzzzzzz.
For an alleged thriller, this is one of the most sluggish pieces of cinema of the year.
Is the Millennium Trilogy over? Can we go home?
If the series, with its dreary TV drabness, has been disappointing, Rapace as Lisbeth is its (dark) heart: fierce and vengeful, with that excruciatingly traumatised body language.
The courtroom in Hornet’s Nest makes the old ITV series Crown Court look lavish, and the drama isn’t half as exciting.
Much of it still plays like bad Thomas Harris.
While much of it trundles along, one must credit Noomi Rapace for holding the centre as the implacable heroine, that basilisk stare underscoring her lengthy silences.
A compelling mix of conspiracy thriller, courtroom drama and psychological drama with an ambiguous ending.
A brisk conspiracy thriller.
A fittingly rubbish end to what has been a thoroughly disappointing series of films.
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