This rather dark Swedish thriller is very engaging and, despite a few brutal scenes, a rewarding watch.
The film starts out looking like a regular Grisham courtroom drama, and they we get introduced to a Goth hacker private investigator. Don't worry, they don't throw caution to the wind at this point, what we see is the coming together of a dysfunctional duet who made it successfully through three novels and now three films (the second and third have not made DVD in the US yet).
The location is beautiful, rural Sweden. I wonder if there is any other type. Still, beautifully snow dusted landscape, nice architecture, and overall a placid backdrop of a film which turns into a psycho thriller of the level of say Manhunter. I must admit there are some scenes that seem to be there only to put our heroine through hell, but they are probably valid as they show who she is before we see this quiet girl suddenly kicking butt.
I am quite looking forward to the other two films, which, though filmed for TV, due to the success of this first were also released big screen in Sweden.
All through the film Micheal Nyquist, the actor who took the lead role, was reminiscent of a cross between John Nettleton and Daniel Craig. I was not too surprised that the role has gone to Daniel Craig for the US remake.
Dark but entertaining manhunt with a reasonable twist at the end.
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