Luftslottet som sprängdes
Tags: dark, suspenseful, gothic, mystery, psychological, violence, atmospheric, flashback, revenge, historical

Plot synopsis:
Picking up immediately after the events in the previous movie 'The Girl Who Played With Fire', Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) is airlifted to a hospital in Gothenburg. Surgeons remove the bullets from her shoulder, hip, and head, where her father, Alexander Zalachenko, shot her. In the hospital, she meets Dr. Jonasson (Aksel Morisse), who cares for her throughout her stay, preventing anyone except her lawyer from visiting.Niederman (Micke Spreitz) is now a fugitive, wanted for killing two police officers after escaping in the previous movie.In Stockholm, a man named Evert Gullberg (Hans Alfredson) meets with his former colleague of 35 years, Fredrik Clinton (Lennart Hjulström); the two decide that they must silence Zalachenko and Lisbeth.Zalachenko (Georgi Staykov) is still alive, in a hospital room down the hall from Lisbeth. He is met by a member of the "Section", a group within the Secret Police (abbreviated as Säpo), to decide how to conceal his existence. Zalachenko puts all the blame on Niederman, and threatens that if he were to be convicted, he would spill everything to the police and media.Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) asks his sister, Annika (Annika Hallin), to be Lisbeth's lawyer, as she is accused of attempted murder as well as the three murders of Nils Bjurman, and Dag and Mia in the previous movie that she was never cleared of.Gullberg arrives at the hospital at the same time as Annika, passing right by her. He then tells Zalachenko that they will not help him, before shooting him in the head. Annika saves Lisbeth by barricading the door to Lisbeth's room, preventing Evert from killing her too, and he shoots himself. Afterward, police are soon put outside Lisbeth's room, and Fredrik visits the Section headquarters to confirm that Evert shot Zalachenko, stating that he had chosen to do a final job because he was dying of liver cancer.Fredrik visits Dr. Peter Teleborian (Anders Ahlbom), and explains his plan to punish her for trying to kill Zalachenko by having her committed to St. Stephen's mental hospital again. Teleborian tries to meet with Lisbeth to conduct a psychological evaluation, but Dr. Jonasson denies him entry and insists he make the necessary official requests.Mikael and Annika lose both copies of the Björck investigation files, files needed to prove that Lisbeth was in fact being punished by corrupt men of law, as they were stolen under orders from Fredrik. Mikael then calls Milton Security in desperation.Meanwhile, a representative from the Section speaks to the goverment prosecutor, Ekström, stating that if Zalachenko's secrets were to come out during Lisbeth's murder trial, relations with foreign countries and Säpo's secret contacts would be ruined, and that there are many useful background facts about the case, including her previously attempted patricide, that would help convict her.The Millennium team work to find out more about the Section, but find it difficult since many of the politicians and Säpo workers would have leaked information about it in their autobiographies. Mikael then decides to uncover more information on Gullberg to find out more about the Section.Mikael tells Dr. Jonasson the conspiracy against Lisbeth. He finds it unlikely, but Mikael assures Jonasson that it is true. Mikael then convinces him to sneak in her internet phone into the hospital. Upon receiving her phone, Lisbeth immediately contacts her hacker friend Plague to see if he can find information on Teleborian, and then tells Mikael that Annika has permission to use a video of Nils Bjurman her former guardian and one of the people she is accused of murdering raping her.At the office the next day, Christer finds out that Gullberg and a man named Hans von Rotting visited the Prime Minister in 1976. Mikael decides to visit one of the secretaries, Bang Janeryd, and shows him the files. He says he had no idea what Zalachenko was doing, and that he wants nothing to do with the trial. Mikael forces him to either have his involvement revealed or tell Mikael what he knows and become a confidential source. He confirms that Gullberg and Rotting had visited the Prime Minister, as well as Fredrik Clinton. He tells Mikael that Zalachenko had cooperated with them and gave them invaluable information, and that everything was to be top secret at the time.Plague contacts Lisbeth, and tells her that he did not find anything on Teleborian's work computer. She then suggests that he hack into his personal computer. He will do it, regardless of the difficulty. Later, a woman named Monica Figuerola of the police asks Mikael to meet with her and her boss Torsten Edklinth. They say that there is in fact an underground crime group that is involved with the government, and that Torsten's meeting with the Prime Minister resulted in a full investigation. They also inform Mikael that they need time to identify those involved, and that he must print the magazine after the investigation is over, because if not, it will be put in jeopardy. They are also aware of the torture Lisbeth was subjected to. Mikael then gives them a few of the names of those involved.While still in the hospital, Lisbeth starts working on an autobiography to tell her life story to Mikael. She continues to have nightmares of memories about her time at St. Stephen's, her father and half-brother, and of her rape by Bjurman. When she wakes up, Niederman is outside of her window, and aims at her with a gun, but she moves out of his view before he shoots.Mikael continues his story, and then follows Teleborian, with Christer's help. They also follow the Section member he is meeting with, which leads to a flat that Fredrik Clinton had been to four hours before. Lisbeth finishes her autobiography and sends it to Mikael, and Jonasson informs Lisbeth she can stay no longer and she will be taken away in a couple of days. Dr. Jonasson is surprised that she is not worried about the trial. Mikael finishes his story as well.Another day or two later, Lisbeth is transfered out of the hospital and to a prison in Stockholm to await her murder trial.Sonny, the motorcycle gang member from the previous film, is informed that he was searched by the police, but found clean, and that his friend had sent Niederman to hide out in his home. There, he finds his brother dead and his girlfriend tied, gagged, and apparently assaulted. She tells him that Niederman was the culprit, and Sonny vows revenge.Fredrik, in dialysis, is given a copy of Lisbeth's autobiography, and is told that none of it can be proven.Meanwhile, Erika has been receiving anonymous, violently pornographic hate mail, which causes an uproar in the office.In prison, Lisbeth is interrogated by the prosecutor, and says nothing.Annika is given Lisbeth's computer and the DVD of her rape, which she watches.Niederman breaks into an abandoned warehouse, and kills a witness, a random biker.Erika has been receiving more hate mail, as she and the whole office is being spied on by the Section. Dr. Teleborian meets with Lisbeth, and again remains silent.Erika's bedroom window has been smashed, and she, in desperation, has called Milton Security. Mikael meets up with the owner, and is informed of this, and that someone had broken into his apartment and smuggled cocaine and cash there. The building owner concludes that they are trying to frame him, since they cannot hurt the newspaper. The police find that Jonas (the Section member Teleborian had met with) had met up with the Nikolic brothers, sharpshooters in the Bosnian War and the ones who are pursuing the members of Millennium.Mikael decides to meet with Erika at a restaurant names "Samir's Gryta". The police try to warn Mikael that they will attempt to kill them there, but Mikael had left his phone at the office. They call the restaurant, and Mikael, in an attempt to answer the phone, runs into one of the brothers, who pulls out a gun. Mikael fends him off as the police hurry towards the restaurant. Figuerola arrives with the police and recognizes the other brother waiting in a car outside the restaurant, and arrests them both. The Section is dismayed when they find that the two brothers had failed their job.In court, Lisbeth enters with ear and facial piercings, a mohawk hairstyle, black makeup, and dark clothing. As the court procession proceeds, Mikael decides to print Lisbeth's story in the magazine. Mikael visits Erika, who is being monitored by police, to say that he had gone against her decision to not print the magazine. Teleborian heads into court, stating that her autobiography is merely the product of Lisbeth's supposed paranoid delusions. Annika lashes back by demolishing Teleborian's credibility, where he states that she was restrained at St. Stephen's for around 30 days, when in reality, she had been restrained for 381 days. She uses Lisbeth's word and files from the hospital to prove this. The judge does not accept old files as proof against Teleborian's credibility.Afterward, Plague follows Teleborian up to his hotel. From the lobby he is able to use wireless internet to hack Teleborian's computer, and catches him looking at child pornography. Plague makes a full copy of the computer, which he soon gives to Mikael, who passes on the information to Annika and the police.In court, Annika shows the video proving Bjurman raped Lisbeth, and showing her statements of abuse were completely true.As Annika presents her case for the defense, the police arrest the people involved with the Section and seize their place of operation. She proves that Teleborian had confined Lisbeth to an institution as punishment for setting her father on fire, and that he wants to detain Lisbeth at St. Stephen's once more. Annika calls Mikael to the stand and states that Teleborian had written his psychiatric opinions before he had even been allowed to interview Lisbeth. Then Annika calls Edklinth to the stand, and he states that the opinions were formulated in cooperation with Jonas Sandberg, using his computer as proof. Teleborian is left speechless. Edklinth tells Teleborian he is to be arrested, on charges of possessing over 8,000 items of child pornography, and his computer seized as evidence. After Teleborian is arrested, the court then decides that Lisbeth has no further need to been detained in custody.The Millennium workers celebrate their victory, with Erika returning to work. Lisbeth is encouraged by Annika to check the property she has inherited from Zala and is led to the warehouse where Niederman was hiding. Niederman attempts to trap her in the warehouse and kill her, but she is too fast for him. Lisbeth uses a nail gun to trap Niederman, nailing him to the floor. She considers nailing him in the head but runs out of nails. Upon leaving, Lisbeth instead phones Sonny and tells the bikers where to find Niederman, and then she calls the police after the bikers arrive.Lisbeth returns home, Mikael briefly visits her to tell that the motorcycle gang killed Niederman and were arrested soon after. They then have a brief, strained conversation, in which she thanks him for everything, and agrees to stay in touch as he is about to leave.

Review: Perspective: I am 25, Danish (thus understanding Swedish) and have not read the books.The final movie covering Stieg Larssons Millennium trilogy ties all the pieces together and explains the deeper reasons for Lisbeth Salanders unreasonable treatment by society.Compared to its predecessors, I found the first movie highly gripping for its unique roughness and interesting characters, while the sequel didn't really catch me due to a plain storyline and little creativity.
This movie however is back on track, keeping a good pace of events and complexity.If you have already followed Salander and Blomkvist during the previous books/movies, you will surely enjoy watching how the conspiracy is being unraveled through intense investigations and court trials.
'THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET'S NEST': Four and a Half Stars (Out of Five) The third part in the wildly popular Swedish crime series the 'Millennium Trilogy' (following 'THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO' and 'THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE', both released earlier this year in America and last year in Sweden and other parts of the world.) based on the successful books by the late Stieg Larson (who died in 2004 before the first book was published in 2005).
The film once again stars the beautiful and stunning Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander (the title role) and Michael Nyqvist as Mikael Blomkvist.As the movie opens Lisbeth is being taken to a hospital for urgent care due to being shot multiple times, including a head shot, by her father at the climax of the second film.
The people out to silence Lisbeth are very powerful though and Mikael and his team soon find themselves in grave danger as well.The film has received only mediocre reviews from critics, with many calling it a boring disappointment, but the fans so far mostly think otherwise.
"The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" ends the Millennium Trilogy from Swedish television.Taking up where the second chapter left off, Lisbeth Salandar (Noomi Rapace) is in the hospital, recovering from her wounds.
Mikael and Lisbeth work separately again to clear her name and keep her from being either imprisoned or committed.Good ending to this trilogy, as it wraps up the story very nicely.
Rapace's magnificent presence and total immersion into the role again dominates, with Nyqvist also excellent as Blomkvist, demonstrating his quiet determination to help Lisbeth.Despite the pervasive dark atmosphere (which the story demands) and some really major violence in the first episode, which is not my thing, I really am very glad I watched the Swedish version of this trilogy and do not plan on viewing the American version.
Like coming to the end of an exceptional book, you'll hope for more, surely another way to eke out a Lisbeth Salander film to enjoy.
The Girl Trilogy - Hornet Completes It. These Swedish films are based on author Stieg Larsson's very popular "Millennium" trilogy of books.The "Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" is the first, and "The Girl Who Played With Fire" is the second, while "The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest" is the last in the series.All three should be viewed in sequence.
We have a more fleshed out group of characters to contend with now and the plot of the series has become so expansive you can hardly believe these two rather insignificant people have so much on their plates.The final installment in the Millennium trilogy continues off where the 1st and 2nd movie leaves off as we find Lisbeth being air lifted out of Zala's compound and near death.
Meanwhile the authorities seek Lisbeth to indict her for attempted murder and a slew of other alleged misdeeds but Blomqvist still stands by steadfast and armed with the truth.We see more into the reason why a mysterious group of unknown individuals seeks to discredit Lisbeth and silence her to protect the man called Zala and what his significance is to the mysterious group.The whole of Lisbeth's past and the present circumstances surrounding Zala and the mystery men come together like an immovable object and an unstoppable force as the story reaches its ultimate climax towards the end.
We will be treated to excellent acting and a compelling ending to the trilogy written by Stieg Larson.The action of the first two films is replaced with a tense thriller as we see the attempt to quiet our two heroes permanently, while they use all their resources to expose a secret agency much like that in the Bourne Trilogy.
The third instalment of the Millennium trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest dives further back into Lisbeth Salander's past and gives us a slight idea into why she is the way that she is.
It's not as amazing as The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, but it's a definite improvement in coherence over The Girl Who Played with Fire.I thought it was a reasonably strong end to the trilogy, and I admittedly felt some strong satisfaction at seeing some of the events that happen in this movie.
I re-watched The Girl Who Played With Fire just prior to seeing this final film of the trilogy and it left me itching to discover what would happen next.The relationship between Lisbeth and Mikael is utterly fascinating and a refreshing change from the usual movie 'love interest' thrown in to appease audiences.
Part 3 of the Stieg Larsson Millennium trilogy brings to an end this fascinating multi-dimensional mystery-thriller centered around one of the most absorbing characters ever viewed on screen, Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace).
Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) and his team at Millennium are putting together a comprehensive story to help in Lisbeth's defense and to prevent her from being institutionalized.This is where we really are introduced to the players of The Section, the secret society of Swedish Police.
"The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" is another magnificent film of the Millennium Trilogy that closes with golden key this awesome story.
The Godfather , Lord of the Rings and even Toy Story, but for me The Millennium Trilogy is up there with best.The Girl who kicked the Hornets nest is the final film of the three and for me the most gripping.
Although this film has far less action than the other films it ties up any lose ends that the first two movies leave and the court room scenes had my heart pumping.The acting from Noomi Rapace and Michael Nvqvist is outstanding and i have thoroughly enjoyed watching them over the three films.
Again, I elected for English-dubbed in and it was excellent, seamless.Downsides: No landscape scenery to speak of, no humor, music was never a factor, no tension or suspense; no real action scenes (not that we need to see them in every movie); too much rehashing of the second segment; a secondary plot involving a secret organization within the Swedish government that really went nowhere; no chemistry between Mickael and Erika (Endre) who were supposed to be an item; way too long and this one also ran around itself until the trial and, of course, too talky.
Continuing the story of Swedish journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) and punk Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace), Daniel Alfredson's "Luftslottet som sprängdes" - "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" in English - pits the young woman against the people who abused her as a child.
The third & final chapter of the Millennium Trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest is also the weakest entry in the series which, in its effort to bring a satisfying conclusion to the story of Lisbeth Salander, fails to do justice to a lot of elements and relies way too much on Noomi Rapace's performance to get itself past the finish line.Based on Stieg Larsson's novel of the same name, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest finds Lisbeth Salander recovering from the events that transpired in the previous film while awaiting trial for the three murders she was wrongfully framed for.
But in order to prove her innocence & secure a better future, she'll need to disclose the scarring details of her past life.Directed by Daniel Alfredson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest begins right where the previous feature signed off but the loss in quality that was evident in the second instalment when compared to the first one continues its trend here for this second sequel is too slow & tedious for what's supposed to be the final entry in the series and also happens to be a tad too long.It does however ties up the loose ends and finally unfolds the mystery of its lead character by unfolding her disturbing past & the reason why she is the way she is.
Noomi Rapace once again chips in with a terrific performance which overshadows the rest of the cast's input.On an overall scale, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest isn't the finale Lisbeth Salander deserves for it lacks the sense of hurriedness that final chapters usually have, is overlong & overly plotted in the middle, and could've been a much better send-off if the narrative was more tightly structured.
Luftslottet som sprängdes (The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest) – CATCH IT ( B ) Well another very good Suspense continued story of Lisbeth Slander it was dealt very Police investigation way...
Then she returns from the dead to smash an axe into the head of her father.¨ The Millennium trilogy written by the late Stieg Larsson, finally comes to an end with The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest picking up right where the second one ended.
I still enjoyed The Girl who Played with Fire, but I think that it is very difficult to judge that one on its own because it didn't have an ending and only served to set up part of the plot for this final third film where we finally get all our questions answered about the secret group that Lisbeth's father was involved with.
The second movie left a lot of inconclusive things, but The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest finally gives us all the answers in a little over 2 hours and 20 minutes.
The same director (Daniel Alfredson) and screenplay writer (Jonas Frykberg) from the second part of the trilogy are back, but this time they included Ulf Ryberg to help out a little more with the screenplay, and I think that his addition contributed a lot more in order to make this movie flow better (which was one of the weaknesses I found from the previous film).
I know that you cannot include everything from the book in a two hour movie, so many people may end up disappointed, but I think the film worked really well on its own.
"The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest" is the final completion of the Millennium trilogy which main advantage was the original novel by Stieg Larsson.
Noomi Rapace has The Millennium Trilogy by the late Stieg Larsson to thank for in propelling her to stardom the world around, where she's synonymous with her character Lisbeth Salander, the eccentric female hacker who sports a large mean looking dragon tattoo on her back.
While there's this precise turning point in the film, perhaps it's because as an audience we're already aware of the truth and what's already hidden up the characters' sleeves that took away some of the shine from the "surprise" unbeknownst to the opposition, that it became more of an exercise in necessity just waiting to happen.The other half of the dynamic duo Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) also didn't have much to do other than to work on his new Millennium issue dedicated to tell the truth about Lisbeth, in hope that it will bring a positive outcome at the end of it all.
There's nothing much left to be revealed in the final installment other than to define Lisbeth Salander's background a little bit more and to explain why she's so hunted by her enemies, If anything, the cast continues their top notch fleshing out of Stieg Larsson's characters, with Noomi Rapace leading the pack in the promise of her potential outside of this franchise..
This last (?) installment of the 'Millennium' trilogy may contain less characters suspense, as we already know the heroes, but moves the action in the political and psychological thriller and court drama territories, and does it in a solid and yet sensitive way.Much is of course to be said - again - about the splendid acting of Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth and of Michael Nyquist as journalist Mikael Blomqvist.
And I think that the final result was pretty good, because the film kept me very entertained and interested.As for the cast, our old acquaintances Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Rapace bring perfect performances in the leading roles once more, and I also liked the work from Lena Endre, Annika Hallin, Anders Ahlborn, Jacob Ericksson and specially Micke Spreitz.
However, the story is the film's main star, and despite not being an excellent film, I liked The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest pretty much, even though I felt some melancholy when it ended for knowing that the late author Stieg Larsson (1954-2004) will not write anymore about the adventures from the characters Lisbeth Salander and Michael Blomkvist..
Lisbeth gets some breathing room, so the Millennium group has time to shine in the series' dramatic conclusion.Not as consistently brilliant as the first film, yet not as confused and silly as the second, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest occupies a happy medium.
The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson is a series of pulp mysteries centered around Lisbeth Salander, an interesting, intelligent, self-reliant character who jumped off the page in the first book, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.In print, Larsson's prose (perhaps only in translation) can be pedestrian.
Although the books were doorstop bricks, the film works without a lot of explanation.Noomi Rapace -- a Swedish actress virtually unknown here in North America -- plays Lisbeth Salander, a tough, eccentric researcher/hacker.
Their loss...This, the final act in the trilogy, wraps up all the loose ends.In The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Lisbeth Salander is introduced as an objet, not much more than bandaged furniture around which the other characters move.
As you get to know Salander, you come to understand that the bad guys don't have a snowball's chance.You watch the story unfold to see how she is going to defeat them.This is a dark, dark, dark film.I read the book, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo only because I liked the trailer for the film by that name.
Not counting the extended TV version and the imminent American remake, this is the Millennium trilogy's cinematic swansong (unless the alleged manuscript for a fourth book in the series turns up), the last hurrah for Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander, and a chance for director Daniel Alfredson to "redeem" himself after a rather frosty reaction to The Girl Who Played with Fire.
Needless to say, the dizzy heights of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo are, again, out of reach, but as a standalone thriller The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest is satisfying enough.Starting exactly where the second film ended (and thus fully justifying the project's TV origin), we catch up with a half-dead Lisbeth (Noomi Rapace), who, after being buried alive, has been rushed to the hospital with a bullet in her head.
Naturally, the old men responsible for the whole mess are eager to silence everyone else, and Lisbeth's psychotic half brother is still at large as well...While the first two films were very Scandinavian in mood, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest harks back to American conspiracy thrillers, albeit with that certain Swedish touch, and the movie's look at a very different kind of "old men in suits" is one of its stronger assets.
I have finally done it, I have done everything Millennium trilogy related I could possibly do: I have read the novels, seen the David Fincher film and now completed the Swedish version of the trilogy.The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest picks up where The Girl Who Played With Fire left off: Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) had been shot in the head by her father Alexander Zalachenko (Georgi Staykov) and is being rushed to hospital.
And while the girl in the conclusion to the Millennium Trilogy isn't literally kicking a hornets' nest, she is stirring up trouble for retired members of the Swedish Security Service.Waking up in a hospital, after being shot by her former Soviet agent father and hulking half- brother, hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) struggles to stay alive long enough to see the doctor who raped her go to jail.Meanwhile, journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) and his editor receive death threats for their coverage of Lisbeth's trial.Though it ties up the loose ends, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest does so in a confusing, tedious fashion, with far less oomph than the trilogy's antepenultimate and penultimate installments.Besides, why kick hornets' when it's more fun to tear their wings off?
And it brings the trilogy to a satisfying conclusion when, for the first time, Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) utters the words "Thank you" to Michael Nyqvist (Mikael Blomkvist) for the favor he has done her in saving her life.
As this film, the final installment in the Millennium trilogy, begins, (SPOILERS AHEAD) Lisbeth Salander is in a hospital, recovering from the bullet in the head she got at the end of part II.
This film opens where 'The Girl Who Played with Fire' ended; protagonist Lisbeth Salander is being taken to hospital as has her father.
The Millennium Trilogy as they are known of popular books, have been adapted very well into three Swedish films, the first is the best, the second is okay, and this final chapter is a good pick up.