From those happy folks in Sweden comes this charmer! Okay, this sure ain't no charmer and really, it comes from a country that ranks 18th in suicide rates. Now that is a happy country. Every once in awhile, I am into seeing something along the lines of "Silence of the Lambs" (1991) or its prequel 1986's "Manhunter" and though I didn't expect it, this movie is right in there. Creepy and (though fiction is) so possible.
A Swedish journalist accused of slander will be going to prison for an expose on an arms dealing Swedish tycoon. He has about 6 months before that sentence and during that time, he is hired by another Swedish tycoon to find a girl who fell off the face of the earth 40 years ago. In that process, he hooks up (as in family friendly sense, not college frat sense) with a girl named Lisbeth who is an accomplished hacker and researcher. What they find and barely escape from is just knarly and so, this is definitely not something that the kids would want to see or something you might use as a first date movie. Incidentally, the arms dealing tycoon is found out and commits suicide...NUMBER 18 BABY!!!!
It took a bit to get into the movie, but I am glad that I did and have lined myself up for the other 2 films in this trilogy. In essence, Stieg Larsson (who wrote the 3 books that these films are based on) is the Swedish version of Thomas Harris who authored the Hannibal Lecter series. The acting is good, the directing is good, the cinematography is good, and the script is good as well. See it.
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