The Girl Who Played With Fire

It was a toss-up, whether I'd go see The Girl Who Played With Fire or Inception last week, and Girl won the toss. Did I like it? Yes. was it depressing? Yes, but the middle one in a trilogy is almost always the depressing one. Am I now looking forward to The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest? Oh yes.

This is a worthy sequel to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo-not quite as violent, not quite and woman-hating, but just as intelligent, in that it does not always spell things out for you. My only issue with it was (as a friend pointed out) Salander seemed to be passive here-always sitting in her apartment, hiding out after she's kicked some ass. But in the book, she's never JUST sitting there-she's usually working on something, hacking something, investigating something-not just sitting there, smoking a cigarette while looking out at her great view. Still, it was well done and the action sequences were very well done, although Salander seems to be a bit of a cipher in the movie, whereas in the books, we come to know quite well why she does what she does. Still, I suppose they have to save something for the third movie. For a made-for-TV movie in Sweden, it's pretty good. Now where's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest?