The Girl Who Played With Fire

R

Released Jul 9, 2010

2h 9m

Mystery & Thriller

Crime

Drama

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69%

162 Reviews

Tomatometer

68%

25,000+ Ratings

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Lisbeth, a computer hacker, goes on the run after being accused of three murders. It is up to journalist Mikael to investigate to try and clear her name.

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Critics Consensus

Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist remain extraordinarily well-suited to their roles, but the second installment in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy doesn't pack quite as much punch as the first.

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Shaun E

The Girl Who Played With Fire does not have the same shock value as its predecessor, but still packs a punch in terms of intrigue and complex storytelling. This second outing for the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is where a lot of Lisbeth's Salander's back story comes into play. A complex web of conspiracy is unravelled until the fairly blood filled ending of the film which leaves unfinished business for the third film to deal with. This film has some additional story elements built into it which place Lisbeth in a much more vulnerable position than was seen to be the case in the first film. Yes, she experienced much brutality in the first film, but some carelessness, loyalty and revenge lead her to act alone. Acting was brilliant and dubbing was mostly excellent. Only in a couple of places did things seem out of place in this regard. Storytelling was very much the order of the day - over action. It is a film with almost nothing in the way of special effects and delivers without needing to add these factors in. All in all, setting itself up for the third film which has a lot resting on it.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/03/24

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Audience Member

Qualquer filme com Noomi rapace é bom, Ótima atriz

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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Manny P

Diminishing returns I'm afraid. When you change the director, it ultimately loses its grip on the source material. The same thing happened with the American remakes. What is a cracking set of books, could have cemented it's place with a cult movie following, but that, sadly, remains with the books and nothing else.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/13/22

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Audience Member

Better than the first. It was nice to see an adaptation of the second.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/16/23

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dustin d

The Girl Who Played with Fire is slightly better than the previous film as it relies less on unlikely coincidences to move the plot forward. It is still a little too enamored with Lisbeth Salamander, Sweden is still a hotbed of misogyny and sex trafficking, and Stieg Larsson's stand-in, Mikael Blomkvist, is still a courageous investigative journalist/activist, morally and intellectually superior to his subjects, like all activist journalists are.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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dave s

Like its predecessor The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire has an interesting premise but is marred by an absurdly complicated plot and enough characters to fill a rolodex. Nutshelling it as simply as humanly possible, Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) returns to Sweden and is almost immediately accused of triple murder. Meanwhile, the gang at the Millennium are investigating a sex trafficking ring which eventually ties in with Lisbeth's father and a bunch of seemingly incompetent cops and a German boxer who looks and acts like the Terminator and then things get confusing. It's probably worth watching for the performance of the steely-eyed Rapace, but beyond that, there's just too much talking by too many characters.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Daniel Alfredson

Director

Noomi Rapace

Lisbeth Salander

Michael Nyqvist

Mikael Blomkvist

Lena Endre

Erika Berger

Peter Andersson

Nils Bjurman

Michalis Koutsogiannakis

Dragan Armanskij

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Anna Smith

metro.co.uk

This is an enjoyable thriller: there's no shortage of action, intrigue and girl power.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 23, 2018

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Paul Byrnes

Sydney Morning Herald

The second film is more efficient than the first, less concerned with getting all the story on to the screen.

Rated: 4/5

Sep 24, 2010

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Philippa Hawker

The Age (Australia)

Director Daniel Alfredson taking over from Niels Arden Oplev, maintains the sometimes disconcerting mixture of violence and righteous investigation that characterise the series.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 23, 2010

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Audiences familiar with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, a capable if troubled mystery, will notice a sharp decline in the quality of storytelling here.

Rated: 2/4

Aug 3, 2023

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Rene Jordan

El Nuevo Herald (Miami)

Fire is better than Dragon because the new director, Daniel Alfredson, is less sadistic and more coherent. [Full review in Spanish]

Aug 8, 2022

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Allen Almachar

The MacGuffin

A finely made, suspenseful thriller, a must see.

Rated: B+

Aug 12, 2020

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Synopsis

Lisbeth, a computer hacker, goes on the run after being accused of three murders. It is up to journalist Mikael to investigate to try and clear her name.

Director: Daniel Alfredson
Screenwriter: Jonas Frykberg
Distributor: Music Box Films
Production Co: Film Väst, Nordisk Film, Yellow Bird, Sveriges Television, Svenska Filminstitutet, ZDF Enterprises, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
Rating: R (Language|Brutal Violence|Nudity|Rape|Some Strong Sexual Content)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Original Language: Swedish
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 9, 2010, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 25, 2011
Runtime: 2h 9m

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