Luftslottet som sprängdes (2009)

Director:

Daniel Alfredson

Writers:

Jonas Frykberg (screenplay)
Stieg Larsson (novel)

Release Date:

27 November 2009 (Denmark)

Genre:

Thriller

Cast

Michael Nyqvist	...	Mikael Blomkvist
Noomi Rapace	...	Lisbeth Salander
Michalis Koutsogiannakis	...	Dragan
Anders Ahlbom
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Hans Alfredson
Tina Berg	...	Sjuksköterska
Alexandra Eisenstein	...	Journalist
Lena Endre	...	Erika Berger
Jacob Ericksson	...	Christer Malm
Niklas Falk
Tekla Granlund	...	Jenny
Annika Hallin	...	Annika Giannini
Niklas Hjulström	...	Ekström
Agnes Kittelsen
Magnus Krepper
Sofia Ledarp	...	Malin Erikson
Per Oscarsson	...	Holger Palmgren
Henrik Sjöman	...	Journalist
Georgi Staykov	...	Alexander Zalachenko

Also Known As:

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (International: English title)

Country:

Sweden

Language:

Swedish

Color:

Color

Certification:

Norway:15

Filming Locations:

Stockholms län, Sweden

Company:

Nordisk Film

Movie Connections:

Follows Flickan som lekte med elden (2009)

Exciting recapitulation of the Millennium trilogy

Perspective: I am 25, Danish (thus understanding Swedish) and have not read the books.

The final movie covering Stieg Larssons Millennium trilogy ties all the pieces together and explains the deeper reasons for Lisbeth Salanders unreasonable treatment by society.

Compared to its predecessors, I found the first movie highly gripping for its unique roughness and interesting characters, while the sequel didn't really catch me due to a plain storyline and little creativity. This movie however is back on track, keeping a good pace of events and complexity.

If you have already followed Salander and Blomkvist during the previous books/movies, you will surely enjoy watching how the conspiracy is being unraveled through intense investigations and court trials. You will experience how the opposition crumble beneath Salander and Blomkvists combined efforts at exposing and confronting the deeper reasons for Salanders struggles, and how they piece the puzzle together to clear her name and taking down the shady factions of society.

The movie has a nice level of well thought out detail, but also a several logical breaches. You leave the cinema with a feeling of wanting to know much more about how the initial conspiracy evolved and how parts of the investigation (not involving the key characters) is carried out. This is likely due to the dept of Stieg Larssons books, being impossible to portrait in just 150 swift minutes. This may eventually be a teaser lurking me into reading the books.