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The saga of Lisbeth Salander, Stieg Larsson's damaged but intelligent heroine, comes to a fitting end in the capable hands of director Daniel Alfredson.

In "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest," the final book in the late Stieg Larsson's international bestselling Millennium Trilogy, the Swedish author torques up the mental chess and tones down the action. And so it is in the film from director Daniel Alfredson, who delivers an extremely satisfying ending to the story of Lisbeth Salander, the tough Swedish cyber punk that actress Noomi Rapace has turned into an iconic New Age heroine. Alfredson, who picked up directing duties with the second installment, "The Girl Who Played With Fire," uses the tonal switch to get us far closer to the enigma of a character so burned by life, so darkly brooding, that she keeps human connections and communication to a maddening minimum. [...]

di Betsy Sharkey, articolo completo (4993 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 29 ottobre 2010