Scandinavian Circuit
Posted: December 8, 2009
Noomi Rapace in 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest'
Luftslottet som sprängdes (The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest)
Director(s): Daniel Alfredson (Best Director recipient - Guldbagge award)
Writer(s): Jonas Frykberg (Best Director recipient - Guldbagge award), Ulf Rudberg
Producer(s): Jon Mankell
Star(s):
- Noomi Rapace (Best Actress recipient - Bodil award)
- Michael Nyqvist (Best Actor recipient - Guldbagge award)
Tri-genre: crime thriller suspense
Story Situation: targeted
Satisfaction Rating: above average
Maturity Rating: 13+
Plotline: In the final installment of the trilogy based on novelist Stieg Larsson’s Millenium series, Goth computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) is seriously wounded in the shootout that ended the previous episode. She awakes in a hospital with a gunshot to the head and leather police restraints to hold her in place. Soon she realizes she’s being treated in the same intensive care unit a few doors down from her arch enemy Alexander Zalachenko (Georgi Staykov) - her biological father and former Russian agent - whom she wounded during the shootout. Lisbeth knows she must engineer her removal from the hospital before Zalachenko can recover his strength sufficiently to try to kill her again. After that, she will have to deal with accomplice psychiatrist Dr. Teleborian’s (Anders Ahlbom-Rosendahl) attempt to commit her to an asylum, as well as with her arraignment by the government prosecutor for three murders she did not commit. Meanwhile, Millenium magazine’s editor Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) intensifies his efforts to exonerate Lisbeth by exposing the criminal conspiracy that stretches into the highest levels of the Swedish secret service.
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