Friday, September 24, 2010

Fire-play, sans spark (movie #82)


The Girl Who Played With Fire  
Cinema Nova, 23/09/2010
Status: Behind by 6 films
You know how in Star Wars episodes 1-3 the plot gets massively convoluted just so all the characters get tied together in stupidly unlikely ways?  Same thing happens in The Girl Who Played With Fire, the sequel to the equally stupidly titled The Girl With Dragon Tattoo.  I really liked the first film - it was interesting and different and tensely directed - but this one just plods along, twisting and convoluting itself into convoluted twists ending up as one of the dullest films I have seen in quite a little while.