Never ever underestimate combination of a reporter and a hacker. That combination can ruin anyone's life who mess with them.
It's Blomkvist and Salander. The reporter and the hacker.
They were brought together by a case of missing person leading to murder case.
Blomkvist had few months before he has to go to prison for writing a 'fraud' allegation against Wennerstrom, a Swedish billionaire. And in that mean time, he was hired by Henrik Vanger to re-investigate a 40-years-old case, which is his niece, Harriet Vanger, missing case.
Henrik Vanger had a pre-investigation on Blomkvist before he hired him. A hacker/investigator named Salander, with her outstanding look, who investigated Blomkvist.
Turned out, the case was not only a missing person case. It was a suspected murder case. And after a while of remote surveillance on Blomkvist laptop, Salander couldn't help not to get her hands on dirt. So she sent Blomkvist a traceable email, containing clues to the case.
From that moment on, Blomkvist and Salander worked together solving these clues. And turned out, it was indeed a murder case. Sexual-religious misinterpretation-serial killing for more precise.
The clues are these numbers in the back of Harriet's bible which every piece of numbers leading to one particular verse in the bible. Blomkvist and Salander connected the verses with murder cases that happened in the last 100 years. One murder per verse, conducted as per written in that particular verse.
Crosschecked with company bills in the last 100 years, Salander finally figured who was the murderer. But it was too late for her, since the murderer got Blomkvist tied up in his basement. It was Harriet's brother, Martin.
Lucky for Blomkvist, Salander got there just in time. Martin escaped as Salander tried to save Blomkvist. Then Salander went after Martin on her motorcycle and watched Martin's car crushed after collided with a truck. She could have saved him, before the car blew up. But she didn't, cause her personal hatred on sexual abusive men.
The next day, Blomkvist found that Salander was already leaving and left a note that there are 2 Anita Vanger (Harriet's cousin and also her best friend) in this world. One lived in London but already dead, one other lived in Australia, alive.
So, Blomkvist went to Australia to pick up Anita Vanger, who's none other than Harriet Vanger in her disguise.
Blomkvist solved the case and then carried out the sentence. While in prison, Salander came to visit Blomkvist, brought a bunch of documents, which is results of her investigation on Wennerstrom. Soon as Blomkvist out of the prison, he wrote an accurate and valid allegation against Wennerstrom based on Salander's investigation results. (Told you, not to mess with these two :)
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This is, so far, the best thriller movie I've ever seen. More than 2 hours play and over-air conditioned studio didn't affect my attention while my movie buddy complained a lot afterward.
I was most impressed with the female lead, Noomi Rapace. How she played complicate character such as Lisbeth Salander perfectly. Grew up watching her mother abused and also got abused by her own (step) father until she lit him on fire.
And it has a good plot perfectly depicted in the scenes. It's like Blomkvist and Salander are not just investigating on their own, but somehow they got us to investigate the case in our own mind.
One word for this movie, captivated. :)
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Now playing, the second sequel.
Who Played With Fire
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