Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
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.
The Girl in the Spider's Web is a competent but largely disappointing entry in the Millennium franchise. The plot feels generic and formulaic compared to the original trilogy — a spy thriller that ditches the gritty psychological complexity of Larsson's work in favor of a more conventional action-movie structure. Claire Foy is a serviceable Lisbeth but lacks the raw intensity Rooney Mara brought, and the supporting cast is largely underdeveloped. Visually, the film maintains a cold Scandinavian aesthetic with some stylish sequences that elevate it slightly above the material. As a sequel, it loses much of what made the source material distinctive — the hacker-versus-patriarchy themes are surface-level and the antagonist setup feels recycled. The ending is tidy but unsatisfying, wrapping up too neatly for a story with these supposed stakes.