The Girl in the Spider's Web: A New Dragon Tattoo Story
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On a dangerous and exciting mission by a dangerous hacker called the Lisbeth Slender. The task is to steal a program called Fire Wall, a powerful computer program that can access the symbols of nuclear weapons around the world. Lisbeth tries to do the job, but the download takes the attention of the NSA agent, who tracks the activity to Stockholm. A group of Russian thieves are stealing a computer to transmit the mobile in order to reach that dangerous program in order to exploit it for their benefit.
The Girl in the Spider's Web starts off better than it ends. It holds your attention for the most part, though its plot winds up not serving its hero as well as it should.
Much of what made the preceding four films so daringly unique is gone. In its place is a muddled film that, despite an earnest performance from Claire Foy, leaves very little impression.
The director turns Lisbeth into the perfect female replicant of James Bond; half secret agent and half neighborhood superhero. [Full Review in Spanish]
The problem: better material is needed and the audience can almost see the hand of the studio executives tapping [Alvarez] on the back and reminding him to remember for whom he's directing the film.
The Girl in the Spider's Web, Lisbeth Salander saves the day, and she looks cool doing it. But this is a story so slick that she'd be rolling her eyes if she watched it.
Foy's Lisbeth is somewhat tempered to appeal to a wider mainstream audience, in the superhero vein; she's kind of relatable and likable, a different spin from the originals.
In some moments, Alvarez tries to make Lisbeth's story more personal, but the script does not successfully venture into those darker themes. [Full Review in Spanish]
