The Girl in the Spider’s Web – Movie Review

Release date: November 9, 2018 (USA)
Director: Fede Álvarez
Film series: Millennium
Production companies: Sony Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Yellow Bird, Pascal Pictures
Screenplay: Fede Álvarez, Steven Knight

Chris Stuckmann reviews The Girl in the Spider’s Web, starring Claire Foy, Sverrir Gudnason, Lakeith Stanfield, Sylvia Hoeks, Stephen Merchant, Claes Bang, Christopher Convery, Synnøve Macody Lund, Vicky Krieps. Directed by Fede Alvarez.

Fired from the National Security Agency, Frans Balder recruits hacker Lisbeth Salander to steal FireWall, a computer program that can access codes for nuclear weapons worldwide. The download soon draws attention from an NSA agent who traces the activity to Stockholm. Further problems arise when Russian thugs take Lisbeth’s laptop and kidnap a math whiz who can make FireWall work. Now, Lisbeth and an unlikely ally must race against time to save the boy and recover the codes to avert disaster.