I finally (finally) got through The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, the last film of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Trilogy. I know, yes, technically, now I should go back through and read the Stieg Larsson novels and wait for the American versions of the rest of the films to be released, but…
There is just something about Noomi Rapace playing Lisbeth Salander that is so captivating on film. Every aggravating bit of internal torment that is going on is so evident in ways that (as great as Rooney Mara is), the American version of Dragon Tattoo can simply never capture. No matter what you think of the pacing, or the other actors, or the writing, or your continual ignorant monolingual need to look back and forth between the characters and the subtitles, Noomi’s Lisbeth carries the film.
