This movie is part of the series 'The girl with the dragon tattoo', however, the movie itself confused me a lot as I have only seen the original Swedish movie and this movie doesn't seem to follow on from the end of that movie. There is no doubt about it that it is supposed to be a sequel but it just confused me because none of it really made any sense. In the original Swedish movie she doesn't have a sister, rather a brother, who abuses her and she kills him along with her father.
This movie is all about Lisbeth Slander, she has been made famous by the newspaper article on 'The Girl with the Dragon tattoo' and she is out to defend women who are abused or mistreated by men. She is still a hacker, a very food one and she makes her money off of targeting rich men who are unfaithful or abusive. In this movie she has a sister and her task is to assist an American programmer who made a programme that is very dangerous. He based the code around his son but instead of letting the American government have it he hires Lisbeth to hack the NSA and steal it back so that he can take it away with him and no one will ever have access to it.
It wouldn't be a movie without double crossing, death, action and an evil nemessiss. Needless to say that he is killed, double crossed by some of the people that he trusted and that Lisbeth is now left with his son to protect, a weapon to disarm and a nation to save, whilst fighting against her psychotic sister. She has friends, she has allies but most importantly, she has herself.
If I hadn't have spent the entire movie being a little confused as to how it followed on, I would have really enjoyed the movie. I enjoyed it but I wasn't able to appreciate it for what it was because it didn't make much sense in my head. The setting is different, the characters are played by different actors to the actors in the Swedish movie and nothing flowed normally for me. I liked the action, I liked the portrayal of Lisbeth but I just found that it didn't work as a sequel and that they should have drawn a line under the previous movies and started again with this franchise.
I haven't felt the need to ever re-watch the original movie and I feel the same way about this movie. I remember it and even now, I don't really remember the original movie unless I try but when I do think about it I really don't need to watch it again. There is a slightly darker tone to these movies that makes them very memorable but equally, not necessarily re-watchable.
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