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‘The Girl Who Played With Fire’: Nail-biting tension | 3 stars
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08/01/2010 10:26 PM
By ROBERT W. BUTLER
The Kansas City Star
‘The Girl Who Played With Fire’ ★★★Rated R | Time: 2:09Swedish with subtitlesHave the movies ever seen a heroine like Lisbeth Salander?As portrayed by Noomi Rapace in “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” and now “The Girl Who Played With Fire,” Lisbeth grabs our attention and our allegiance without for one minute asking for our love. In fact, she’s creepy.It’s not just her intimidating looks: the dark wardrobe, nose ring or deliberately ugly slice-and-dice cut of her jet-black hair. It’s what she has inside … or perhaps what she lacks.Rapace’s Lisbeth rarely expresses an emotion, yet it’s clear she burns with an inner rage. Antisocial and secretive, she prefers to live off the map. Lisbeth almost never looks another person in the eye — not even in bed. Perhaps some form of autism prevents her from truly connecting with another human. But whatever demon made her a loner has also allowed her to become a computer wiz capable of hacking into any database or tracking down an individual laptop through its Wi-Fi.
