WORTH 12 BUCKS?: The Girl Who Played With Fire

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We are reminded, once again, that very few franchises can live up to high expectations.  In fact, one of the very franchises that only gets better with age seems to be Pixar...oh....I'm sorry...I meant the Toy Story phenomenon or for that matter, anything Pixar touches.  

OK. Let's please remember that the first movie, the kick-ass, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, with its veritable tour de force performance by Noomi Rapace as the Girl, was a fantastic experience.  Now I suspect most of it had to do with director Niels Arden Oplev and screenwriters Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg .  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo stood on its own two sturdy feet side by side to the book.