The Girl who Played with Fire

2010 • 129 minutes

About this movie

The girl with the dragon tattoo is back in the 2nd installment of Stieg Larsson's gripping trilogy as Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) and crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) are once again caught up in a brutal murder investigation in The Girl Who Played With Fire.

Back at Millennium's helm, Blomkvist is intent on exposing a billion dollar sex trafficking ring but when two of his researchers are murdered, he realises there's more to this story than he first thought when Salander is framed for the crimes. Unconvinced that she is involved, he attempts to clear her name and uncover the real killers. But secretive hacker Salander goes on the run and soon stumbles upon secrets of her own past. Secrets that people would kill to keep hidden...

Ratings and reviews

I'm blown away by this series of films, the second one is even better than the first if that's possible. European films continue to leave Hollywood miles behind .

Not quite as good as the first one...

...just a shame they cut so much from the original novel.