Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Jul 31, 2023 2.5/4

An abrupt and unsatisfying conclusion

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Rene Jordan El Nuevo Herald (Miami) Oct 6, 2022

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

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Rob Gonsalves Rob's Movie Vault Oct 4, 2022 C-

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.

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Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Sep 8, 2020 3.0/4.0

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.

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Allen Almachar The MacGuffin Aug 12, 2020 B

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

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Felicia Feaster Charleston City Paper Jan 22, 2020

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

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David Harris Spectrum Culture Oct 29, 2019 1.7/5

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.

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Edward Frost CineVue Nov 6, 2018 3/5

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.

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Roe McDermott Hot Press Mar 11, 2016 2/5

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.

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Ali Gray TheShiznit.co.uk Sep 28, 2012 3/5

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.

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Jeff Beck Examiner.com Sep 22, 2012 3.5/4

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.

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Robert Denerstein Movie Habit Apr 15, 2012

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

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David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Nov 17, 2011 3/4

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...

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Greg Maki Star-Democrat (Easton, MD) Nov 5, 2011 A-

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

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David Stratton At the Movies (Australia) Mar 3, 2011 3/5

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.

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Jim Schembri The Age (Australia) Mar 2, 2011 1/5

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.

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Alice Tynan Concrete Playground Mar 2, 2011

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

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Paul Byrnes Sydney Morning Herald Feb 28, 2011 4/5

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.

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Belinda Hazleton FILMINK (Australia) 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.

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Andrew L. Urban Urban Cinefile Feb 26, 2011

It's a story with something to say and a powerful way of saying it

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