This is brilliant stuff, most noticeably from the actress Nkomo Rapace, a quite simply brilliant and definitive Lisbeth Salandar. Dark, brooding and vulnerable and played with majestic ease.
The rest of the film is shot beautifully. It does resemble slightly a tv crime drama, but it is wonderfully acted and shot, subtle and slow cranking up drama and tension, and one can only hope that Hollywood tries to keep a bit of that when it comes blazing in with the remake. There a few moments where you question why certain things happen in the plot, having not read the novels I wouldn't know if that is a fault with the novelist or with the script writers trying to cut it down for a reasonable length for a film.
One other gripe with the film is that the last act is basically a set up for the third and final film and not a finale for itself. I understand the reasons for this and it is a dilemma - but the film makers failed to end this film properly in my opinion. However they have set up for the third and final film brilliantly.
4 stars
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