We watched this final chapter in the trilogy of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo movies last evening. It was a fitting conclusion to the story of an abused and used Swedish girl. Like the first film, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, it was violent and sexually explicit. But neither the violence nor sex is gratuitous. The film does have a certain "Swedishness" about it. I can't actually define "Swedishness" but having recently watched several Swedish films there is a similarity. This film has more characters than the previous films and it is more difficult to separate the "good guys" from the "bad guys" and I sometimes find it difficult to follow the action while reading the subtitles. I know the first in this series is being remade in America. But I don't believe it can be made better. The Swedish films have good stories with good acting and are very well made films.
If you like thrillers with action and a Swedish flavor you can't go wrong with: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's nest.
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