In Stockholm, Sweden, vigilante hacker Lisbeth Salander is hired by computer programmer Frans Balder to retrieve Firefall, a program capable of accessing the world's nuclear codes that he developed for the National Security Agency, as Balder believes it is too dangerous to exist. Lisbeth successfully retrieves Firefall from the NSA's servers, attracting the attention of agent Edwin Needham, but is unable to unlock it, and the program is later stolen from her by mercenaries led by Jan Holtser, who also attempt to kill Lisbeth. When she doesn't attend their scheduled rendezvous, Balder mistakenly believes Lisbeth decided to keep Firefall for herself and contacts Gabrielle Grane, the deputy director of the Swedish Security Service (Säpo), who moves Balder and his young son August to a safe-house. Meanwhile, Needham tracks the unauthorized login to Stockholm and arrives to seek Lisbeth and Firefall.. (Courtesy of Internet Movie Database)
THE GIRL IN SPIDER’S WEB (2018) is directed by Fede Alvarez, a novel by David Lagercrantz, written by Jay Basu, Fede Alvarez & Steven Knight, produced by Scott Rudin & Eli Bush. Having seen the foreign trilogy of films this new U.S. story comes from I had some lofty expectations for this film.
Upon watching and seeing they had replaced Noomi Pace who originally played Lisbeth there was some disappointment yet I pushed on. The film story is a continuance of the last film in the trilogy that being so I assumed this film would deal with similar subject matter which was always the draw. The pacing of the film seemed alright, but the character development was trumped by action sequences that held a cat and mouse kind of feel.
In the End: GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB indeed held up to the previous films and answered some of the lingering questions yet to me it was not the most memorable film of the trilogy. So I give this film 3 of 5 stars.
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