Into A Darker Labyrinth

Rating: 10/10 (8 April 2010)

When journalist Mikael Blomquist is sued by a financier,due to allegations of corruption (and is looking at possible jail time),he is temporarily given a "holiday break" from the magazine he is working for. Mikael is hired by the aged patriarch of the highly dysfunctional millionaire family,the Vangers. Mikael is given free reign to find out just what happened to Harriet Vanger,who vanished from the family at the age of 16. Mikael finds out just how screwed up the Vanger clan really is,and is drawn into a web of corruption,political graft,potential murder,sexual perversion,and other elements he probably should have just taken a pass and just taken time off,instead. Also figuring into all of this is a mysterious young woman known as Lisbeth Salendar,a woman who has been the whipping girl for far too long (she has a short fuse,an attitude problem,and other dark issues as well). Somehow,these two bond to try & sort out all of this insanity. Denmark's Niels Arden Oplev directs from a screenplay written by Nikolaj Arcel & Rasmus Heisterberg,from the celebrated novel by the late Swedish author,Stieg Larsson. This is the first chapter in a trilogy of films based on Larsson's novels,which has already been filmed,and has been released throughout Europe. I eagerly await the next two films. Spoken in Swedish with English subtitles. Not rated by the MPAA,this film contains pervasive strong language,strong sexual content,nudity & some graphic,bloody violence that will disturb some (and this is from the same country that originally banned Star Wars in 1977,because it was considered too violent for it's time)