The Girl Who Played With Fire is the second in the Stieg Larssen movie series. Jeff and I watched it New Year's Eve and drank a bottle of champagne at the same time, which is a pretty good way to watch a movie.
The same characters are in this movie, Lisbeth Salander being the main one. She is targeted as the main suspect in three different murders and has to find her estranged and strange father to prove her innocence. There are some graphic scenes in this movie, just like the first one; an erotic scene between Lisbeth and her female lover, a gruesome replay of a little of the rape scene from the first movie, another gory scene involving an ax... but despite this, the movie is a definite must-see for those who like foreign, suspense-thriller films. I can't wait to get the third installment on Netflix and then turn around and read all the books.
It's too bad the author died a couple of years ago; apparently he had outlines for nine or ten novels with these same characters--now we will never know quite where he was headed, but based on the first two movies I've seen, they would have been good movies/books right to the end.
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