Movie Review: The Girl in the Spider's Web
3.0/5
The film can be described as James Bond on steroids. Cool cars and bikes, cutting edge technology, tech savvy heroes and villains, lush locales and beautiful girls kicking butt, what more can the viewer ask for. It’s another matter that the first film, despite all it’s nakedness, violent sex and blood and gore aplenty, still possessed a soul. It gave us a commentary on the how morally corrupt a so-called welfare society can become. It had an emotional core and the present film, despite giving us a sob story about separated sisters, doesn’t have one. What’s the point of waiting seven years for a sequel if the producers deviate from Larsson’s original trilogy and base their film on trite written by someone else. Instead of being a critique on the modern European society, this a badly written family drama.
The film has been amazingly shot, has a pulsating score, and the action scenes are choreographed quiet well. Claire Foy tries hard to fill Rooney Mara’s shoes and to be fair to her, has done a decent enough job. It’s not her fault that the makers wanted to give us a populist action heroine, someone who can be trusted to appear in a set of sequels and perform to given parameters. Lisbeth Salander in the books is a broken soul trying to mend herself while fighting evil that she sees around her. You root for her because you can identify that evil. Here, nothing more evil than missile codes looms large and you just don’t care if the CIA have them, not have them or they land with someone else entirely. You’re underwhelmed by what’s happening on screen. This is the film’s biggest drawback and something that totally goes against the grain of Larsson’s writings...
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