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I feel like most people are already going to know the basics of this story, be it from the books or the previously released Swedish movies. Regardless, I haven't read the books or seen the other set of films, so this is all new to me and I have nothing to compare to. Very briefly, there's a mystery that needs a-solving, and a journalist is hired to solve it. When he needs help, he hires a clever 23 year old woman with a very difficult history to be his research assistant. This girl is both a genius and possibly insane (though I think it would be much more accurate to call her traumatized). Stuff happens, mystery gets solved, the end. I found the movie to be very well put together, brilliantly paced (for a 2 hour and 40 minute movie) and extremely entertaining. My only issue with the movie is that it takes place in Sweden (which is great) and that everyone speaks English all the time and everything is written in English. It's one thing if everyone simply speaks English in a foreign country, that I can forgive, but don't try and convince me that all the newspapers are English and Swedish people write their personal journals in English, and so on. I am really looking forward to the other movies in this series.

4/5