Vengeance - the new Johnnie To film which i've been waiting for all year. A step back towards the Misson/Exiled type films he's best at - in fact this is pretty much them two films merged together. Fantastic. The most visially and physically inventive set pieces i've ever seen out of Hong Kong, and stuffed full of Melville allusions - Johnny Hallyday walks around in a trenchcoat and trilby the wholetime and and is called Costello - not Jef Costello, but Frank Costello, the Italian release of Le samouraï being titled Frank Costello, Face of an Angel. To is producing a remake of The Red Circle (i think he'll end up directing it myself). Second most enjoyable film of 2009.
The Girl Who Played with Fire - second part of the adaptation of Stieg Larsson's Millenium trilogy. Fairly decent mainstream thriller, much like the first. Fans of the books don't sound too happy though.