Some must penetrate the HYPE!!!

Rating: 7/10 (2 March 2009)

First - I have not read the book, so I'm not one of these hardcore but also biased Millinium fans.
2 1/2 hour is far to long for this movie. Especially when it takes almost 3/4 hour before the plot starts to roll, and the plot pushing mystery is solved 1/2 hour before the end credits - I and the others in the cinema did a lot clock checking during this show...
I don't have the exact numbers but I'll guess this is serial killer movie no. 427, and it's serial killer movie no. 423 where quotes from the Bible are a (or THE) major key in solving the riddle - To put it nice the murder plot was a perfect cliché and so predictable it almost became a joke.
The movie introduces a lot of characters but all except one are through the movie presented as shells and not persons we get to know and therefore understand. The exception is the Lisbeth character but the portrait of her insists on her being so mystique that she ends up being an impersonal caricature.
The conclusion is that the movie is a standard Scandinavian socio-thriller very suitable for a 1 1/2 hour TV-show in the style of Beck or Wallander. As a cinematic movie it's mediocre - to long, to full of clichés, character building to flat & impersonal and the plot to predicable.