The Girl... Trilogy (Extended Versions) (4 Discs) (Blu-ray)

Adapting a worldwide bestseller is a tricky prospect be too slavish and you risk alienating new audiences, cut too much out and you'll anger the faithful.
The solution? Two versions! So the producers of the Stieg Larsson inspired Millennium Trilogy follow up their leaner, cinematic cuts with an extended mini series.
Here we have the three movies re-edited into six episodes, as shown on Swedish telly complete with a natty new title sequence and handy "Previously On".... catch ups.
First up is Niels Arden Oplev's gently tweaked The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, which sees discredited journo Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) and genius hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) teaming up to investigate a missing girl.
This superior opening two parter is as tight and compelling as its big screen counterpart, but it's Daniel Alfredson's sequels that really benefit from the new format.
Dense revenge pic The Girl Who Played With Fire and complex conspiracy thriller The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest get a whopping 55 and 39 minutes of extra footage, respectively.
There's no drastic new set pieces, but the longer run times allow the exposition heavy plot to unfurl at a more leisurely pace and gives several supporting characters notably Blomkvist squeeze and Millennium editor Erika Berger (Lena Endre) room to breathe.
One thing that hasn't changed, though, is Rapace's fascinating and committed turn as the damaged Salander an iconic performance that holds the whole series together.
If revisiting the originals ahead of David Fincher's remake proves one thing, it's that young pretender Rooney Mara has some mighty big emo boots to fill.
This is outstanding movie making and even if you own the previous cinema editions, this is an essential purchase as it's a re-visit that is even more rewarding in the longer cuts.
See If you like.......
Zodiac.
Se7en.
The Silence of the lambs.

Adapting a worldwide bestseller is a tricky prospect be too slavish and you risk alienating new audiences, cut too much out and you'll anger the faithful.
The solution? Two versions! So the producers of the Stieg Larsson inspired Millennium Trilogy follow up their leaner, cinematic cuts with an extended mini series.
Here we have the three movies re-edited into six episodes, as shown on Swedish telly complete with a natty new title sequence and handy "Previously On".... catch ups.
First up is Niels Arden Oplev's gently tweaked The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, which sees discredited journo Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) and genius hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) teaming up to investigate a missing girl.
This superior opening two parter is as tight and compelling as its big screen counterpart, but it's Daniel Alfredson's sequels that really benefit from the new format.
Dense revenge pic The Girl Who Played With Fire and complex conspiracy thriller The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest get a whopping 55 and 39 minutes of extra footage, respectively.
There's no drastic new set pieces, but the longer run times allow the exposition heavy plot to unfurl at a more leisurely pace and gives several supporting characters notably Blomkvist squeeze and Millennium editor Erika Berger (Lena Endre) room to breathe.
One thing that hasn't changed, though, is Rapace's fascinating and committed turn as the damaged Salander an iconic performance that holds the whole series together.
If revisiting the originals ahead of David Fincher's remake proves one thing, it's that young pretender Rooney Mara has some mighty big emo boots to fill.
This is outstanding movie making and even if you own the previous cinema editions, this is an essential purchase as it's a re-visit that is even more rewarding in the longer cuts.
See If you like.......
Zodiac.
Se7en.
The Silence of the lambs.

I love all three parts to this trilogy and especially the fact they are now the proper extended versions, the only dispointment (and it is a big one) is the film quality of the second and third films, it is extremely grainy and poor, I didn't realise that Blu Ray was capable of this. The first film looks great though, I just can't understand how the second two got past any sort of quality control, I've seen better quality film on VHS. It's a shame otherwise this would be perfect.

i loved this trilogy on DVD
but i cant believe how bad the quality of the blu-rays are
film 2 and 3 are extremely grainy and poor

This is absolutely the most perfect set of thrillers ever made, very true to the books, gritty and real and rich with detail, very sexual and violent at times but visually stunning and the stories really keep you interested, the cast is amazing especially the lead actress, having seen the brilliant remake with Rooney Mara its fair to say she did an amazing job and both deserve to be seen. If your curious to watch these movies dont be put off by the subtitles you could always watched the dubbed English versions on the disc, these are massively extended too and look great on bluray