Anchored by a steely performance from Claire Foy as hacker-avenger Lisbeth Salander, The Girl in the Spider’s Web is arguably the most accessible entry in the Dragon Tattoo franchise. It’s more energetic than David Fincher’s artsy and aloof 2011 remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and eschews the series’ more mundane procedural aspects in favor of being a rescue the kid/retrieve the MacGuffin thriller. In that sense then The Girl in the Spider’s Web is more in line with the original Swedish film trilogy, which was itself more “Hollywood” in many ways than Fincher’s rather austere reinterpretation.
This time around, Lisbeth is on the run after a job gone wrong finds her on the bad side of both NSA agent Ed Needham (Lakeith Stanfield) and the Swedish authorities, but her real opponent is her own sister Camilla Salander (Blade Runner 2049’s Sylvia Hoeks). The proverbial sins of the past coming back to haunt Lisbeth -- a character already struggling with plenty of past trauma -- make this a particularly personal battle for her.
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This time around, Lisbeth is on the run after a job gone wrong finds her on the bad side of both NSA agent Ed Needham (Lakeith Stanfield) and the Swedish authorities, but her real opponent is her own sister Camilla Salander (Blade Runner 2049’s Sylvia Hoeks). The proverbial sins of the past coming back to haunt Lisbeth -- a character already struggling with plenty of past trauma -- make this a particularly personal battle for her.
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