The Girl Who Played With Fire (Movie review)

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Movie Synopsis:

The Girl Who Played with Fire(Flickan Som Lekte Med Elden)2009NR129 minutes

Tech expert Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) becomes the prime suspect when two journalists, including Dag Svensson (Hans Christian Thulin), die afterMillennium magazine publisher Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) launches an exposé of the Swedish sex trade. In Part 2 of the trilogy based on the action novels of Stieg Larsson, the vampiric Salander vanishes as Blomkvist digs deep into a possible conspiracy.




REVIEW: 5 of 5 stars

An amazing film, just as good as the 1st part, will watch 3rd part tomorrow. The character development in this satisfies those who complained of it lacking before, I can't wait now to watch part 3. The acting is so realistic, the dialogue & actions so credible, I felt like a voyeur. Lisbeth is much more likable and understandable after this one. I hope they end up together in the 3rd one, because it's clear they care about each other quite a bit. This one didn't leave many, if any, loose ends, though one should see part 1 before this, to understand where these characters are at & what is driving them forward. A bit more gore & blood, violence & cruelty in this 2nd part. There came a time that I thought Lisbeth was dead, but knowing a 3rd part was coming I also knew it wasn't possible, or hoped it wasn't anyway. Despite subtitles, they never slowed down my comprehension of this movie, & time flew by with 2+ hours seeming like 30 minutes. I highly recommend this!

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer movie review

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Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
You rated this movie: 3 of 5 stars

For it's day, this was ground breaking, now it's just creepy scary, not horror gore filled fest we've become used to. In fact, the characters drive the story more than the action does which is why some considered it "boring", but it's anything BUT boring especially for those whose brains work well. What makes this horrid is how little emotion Henry has, and how little empathy Otis & Henry have for human beings at all. As for the gore, well most of the dead bodies were obviously still alive with blinking eyelashes, pulsing throat veins & breathing while playing dead, so that ruined quite a bit of it for me. The most grisly scene & sounds were the worst part of it, was Henry chopping Otis up in the tub. Also the end shocked me although where else did I think this could go? Certainly not to a horse farm to live happily ever after. Don't get the cult following status of this movie really, but to each his own. Not worth buying, not renting either, wait for a rainy snowy day & catch on cable.

Irreversible movie review

Irreversible

You rated this movie: 5 of 5 stars

The 1st 10-15 minutes are dizzying from camera tricks, after that it settles down. I'm sure the bad reviewers never watched past that point or their reviews would be more accurate. Nothing slow about this movie except perhaps the last 4 minutes, and everything is necessary to the film, to your understanding of all that was lost by the victim(s). Glad I read the reviews (& ignored the bad ones) to know the film starts backwards, that kept me from being lost--it was easy to keep up knowing that from the start. The rape(s) of the woman starts about 43 minutes in & goes until about 56 minutes & is the most difficult thing I've ever had to watch & not be able to look away. The earlier rape was about 15 minutes in & once you get to know these characters, by watching to the end, you'll feel the tragedy even more. I would buy this, highly recommend seeing this, though it's value is not empty entertainment. This will haunt you, as it should.

While this was in French with English subtitles, it was not at all difficult to understand & keep track of the dialogue, and I've never seen a better acting job between the two main stars in the end 20 minutes of the film showing them in their every day love & life. They were so believable as a couple in love, in lust, so easy with each other in total nudity, it felt so real. Nothing like this has ever been shown in the US, nor ever will. There were more penis shots than breasts, both erect and flaccid, in action and at rest, than in ALL the movies combined in US films, however this is FAR FROM a sex movie, and is quite innocent if not for the sexual violence. No child could view this and few adults will be able to handle seeing this film, it is extremely graphic, tragic, haunting and horrid, yet the quality (even streaming online) is excellent in every category. I wish films like this didn't come along so rarely...

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Review: Limitless movie

Limitless

You rated this movie: 5

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This was an incredible movie, I could not look away, suspenseful without being anxious, loved the twisted ending too. I would definitely recommend seeing & even buying this movie on DVD, & I don't recommend that very often. Fantastic acting, script, production values, top notch in every way. Ground breaking as well, a new plot we haven't seen repeatedly over done, and it's a relatively clean movie for those who are offended easily by sex or language, although there is a good amount of violence. Cooper will be doing big things after such a superb job leading this film. De Niro was excellent as always--he makes it look easy! The dialogue & every aspect worked perfectly, no credibility issues or other holes to knock one out of the movie head space. In fact, this was even better than Inception of other movies I've seen recently & rated highly. Wish I could give this one ten stars.