The second movie does not start as the second book of Steig Larsson's trilogy does, and we are the poorer for it. Book II begins with a stunning insight into Lisbeth's developing character: At the end of a year of settling into the new wealth she's appropriated by computer magic from the doomed bank accounts of a bad guy, and restlessly looking for purpose, she collaborates with a walloping Caribbean hurricane to relieve a woman of her abusing husband and deliver a native boy into safety. Thus established as a champion of the helpless, she heads back to Stockholm and the tangled web of her life, and to Nyquist. It's at this point that the movie starts - with only nod toward the Caribbean prelude. I wish the director had found a way to be true to Larsson's introduction.
