The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest movie reviews
"The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest," a movie adaption that ends Stieg Larsson's Millenium Trilogy is out today, and the reviews are coming in. I've been waiting for this movie, which stars Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander, because I jumped into the trilogy late and have been hesitant to see the first two movies without reading the books. (Plus, I'm captivated by the foreign title: "LUFTSLOTTET SOM SPRÄNGDES." The phrase, which sounds like an appetizer at a German restaurant, doesn't seem to have a clear meaning into English. It is translated as "The Girl Who Ran" (Google), "The Air Palace That Was Blasted," (stars21.com) and "LUFTSLOTTET which up" (Babylon.com). Here are excerpts from some movie reviews:
Roger Ebert -- So what has happened is that this uptight, ferocious, little gamine Lisbeth has won our hearts, and we care about these stories and think there had better be more.
Tribune -- As Larsson wrote it and screenwriter and exposition-condenser Ulf Rydberg adapted it, it's a rather wobbly blend of courtroom drama and loose ends tied, albeit rather leisurely. ... I did like the notes struck at the end between Noomi Rapace, the series' fine, fierce Lisbeth, and Michael Nyqvist as Blomkvist. The book ended differently; the movie has the guts to let things dangle.
Entertainment Weekly -- "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" is mostly an epic rehash of the tale Larsson has already told, and that makes it, at two hours and 28 minutes, the first movie in the series that never catches fire.
Salon -- [The] good news is that [director Daniel] Alfredson finds his footing in "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" and delivers a rousing, grueling, almost operatically scaled finale to the series.
Comments
Can someone who knows explain to me why the North American version of the movie and book title were changed to the singular Hornet's from the u.k and I assume Stieg's original plural version Hornets'.
who would authorize that and why was it done..infuriating
Posted by: Steve Lambert | October 31, 2010 10:49 AM
Just saw The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Next.. Many of the scenes including the trialof the heroine herself were riveting. At the same time, from the first scene to almost the last, there were major lapses in believability, mainly in how the major characters acted clueless in the face of the dangers to their own lives. I give every film I see a grade and this was deserving of a "B", at least to me.
Posted by: Richard Kranzdorf | November 10, 2010 1:19 AM
As long as Noomi Rapace's 'Lisbeth' gets adequate screen time, it will be a wonderful film.
Posted by: Beau Flecks | November 25, 2010 11:28 AM
The last book's English title has nothing to do with Stieg's title, which in Swedish means, loosely: The Air Castle--like a house of cards-- is all coming apart/falling down. It's part of a phrase. But kicking the Hornet's Nest is similar as Lisbeth sets in motion a string of events that makes the truth come out from the first book's original title: Men who Hate Women. The movie was choppy in places and i was disappointed that Lisbeth's lover Miriam's part in the story wasn't kept in as it showed Lisbeth's vulnerability. I would definitely read the books before going to see the movies.
Posted by: CW | November 26, 2010 4:32 PM