An abrupt and unsatisfying conclusion

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 31, 2023

148 hours of anticlimactic cliches tire one's patience. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 6, 2022

It’s a gloomy affair — in this movie’s Sweden, it’s either raining, is about to rain, or has just rained — with precious little levity and almost no interaction between Lisbeth and Mikael.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 4, 2022

Will resonate most deeply with those who have viewed the first two films and/or at least read the novels upon which the films are based.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 8, 2020

A satisfactory, albeit underwhelming, end to the story of Lisbeth Salander.

| Original Score: B | Aug 12, 2020

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest sends the Larsson story out with a definite bang.

| Jan 22, 2020

The most unfortunate part of the The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest is its heroine has nothing to do but sit in a hospital, prison cell and courtroom until the last five minutes of the movie.

| Original Score: 1.7/5 | Oct 29, 2019

Making up for the series' somewhat tepid second installment, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest is a gripping and deeply satisfying conclusion to the trilogy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 6, 2018

... wraps up the tale with more efficiency than excitement.

| Aug 4, 2017

A two and a half hour film, the poor script, infrequent action scenes and unforgivably anti-climactic conclusion make it feel like its taking place in real time.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 11, 2016

The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest doesn't exactly give the Millennium trilogy the explosive send-off it deserves, and stacked against the other two movies in the series, it's perhaps the weakest story of the three.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 28, 2012

This film ends up being more of a courtroom drama, and yet it's almost as equally thrilling as the first film in the series.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 22, 2012

Will make no sense to those who haven't seen the first two or read the books

| Apr 15, 2012

Unlike its two predecessors, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest boasts a briskly-paced opening half hour that proves effective at immediately drawing the viewer into the movie...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 17, 2011

They cannot overcome completely the redundant, static nature of much of the novel, but they put up a good fight.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 5, 2011

For me the most deadening aspect of these films is the presence of Michael Nykvist as Blomqvist; he seems to have a personality by-pass, and remains expressionless at all times, no matter what's going on.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 3, 2011

The best thing that can be said about the excruciatingly dull, badly made closing chapter in this punishingly bad Swedish crime trilogy is that it really whets the appetite for the upcoming American version.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 2, 2011

Its seems as if the production has taken a bullet to the brain just like its heroine.

| Mar 2, 2011

Seeing the first two films -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire -- will make the third film more satisfying.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2011

While the least satisfying instalment in the trilogy, this still throbs with a slow-burning tension and provides an appropriate farewell to a compelling series.

| Feb 28, 2011