Striking Distance vs The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest has the higher audience score (7/10 against 5.8/10 for Striking Distance). Striking Distance is the shorter watch at 1h 42m compared with 2h 27m. Striking Distance is the older of the two (1993 against 2009). Both are action, crime, mystery movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Striking Distance posterStriking Distance1993 VS The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest posterThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest2009
Striking DistanceThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Audience score★ 5.8/10★ 7.0/10
Year19932009
Length1h 42m2h 27m
GenresAction, Crime, Mystery, ThrillerAction, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country––
DirectorRowdy HerringtonDaniel Alfredson
Main castAndre Braugher, Timothy Busfield, Sarah Jessica Parker, Dennis Farina, Bruce WillisAnnika Hallin, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre, Noomi Rapace, Mirja Turestedt

Synopsis

Striking Distance

Coming from a police family, Tom Hardy ends up fighting his uncle after the murder of his father. Tom believes the killer is another cop, and goes on the record with his allegations. Demoted to water-way duty Tom, along with new partner Jo Christman, navigate the three rivers looking for clues and discovering bodies. This time the victims are women Tom knows, he must find the killer to prove his innocence.

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must prove her innocence. In doing this she plays against powerful enemies and her own past.

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