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The Girl in the Spider's Web
2018 115 min Germany, United Kingdom, United States of America R 18+
★5.6
Action, Crime, Thriller
Director: Fede Alvarez
🎭 Based on
«The Girl in the Spider's Web»
byDavid Lagercrantz
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Description
After being enlisted to recover a dangerous computer program, hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web of spies, cybercriminals and corrupt government officials.
Budget:
$43M
US Gross:
$14.84M
Worldwide:
$35.16M
Starring
Claire Foy
Actor
Beau Gadsdon
Actor
Sverrir Gudnason
Actor
Awards
1 win & 7 nominations total
Key opinion
The Girl in the Spider's Web is generally regarded as a stylish but hollow action thriller that fails to live up to the atmospheric and narrative depth of its predecessors. While Claire Foy's performance is widely praised as a strong anchor, critics and audiences alike lament a weak, cliché-ridden script that favors generic blockbuster tropes over the series' signature intellectual complexity.
| Acting | Claire Foy delivers a strong and convincing performance that stands as the film's most consistent highlight despite the lackluster material. | |
| Cinematography | The film maintains a high-quality visual aesthetic, effectively utilizing cold Scandinavian landscapes and striking lighting to create a stylish, if superficial, atmosphere. | |
| Screenplay | The screenplay is heavily criticized for being implausible, predictable, and overly reliant on recycled action movie tropes rather than the gritty detective mystery of the source material. | |
| Adaptation | The adaptation of the Millennium series is viewed as a creative step down, failing to capture the original spirit or thematic depth, resulting in a generic 'Bond-style' action vehicle. | |
| Theme | The portrayal of Lisbeth Salander is a subject of debate: some appreciate the attempt to modernize her as a noble avenger, while others feel the film strips away her essential trauma and complexity in favor of a flat, 'invincible' action hero archetype. |