Review of The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018) by Shpostal — 09 Nov 2018

This is one of those movies where the trailer is decidedly misleading, and it's too bad that the scenes of Foy as the vigilante going after abusive men weren't the focus of the movie, because after that early scene we've all viewed on previews the story quickly goes awry.

Not that "The Girl. . . " is a bad movie - it just isn't very mindblowing, either. In a typical computer hacking story that naturally downloads some very sensitive nuke information from the NSA, and the cliched plot full of bad guys and a couple bad girls going ballistic to get the program and its information back, Foy spends most of the time running and playing "Mission: Impossible" type games as she protects a kid who knows the secret codes to open the sinister program.

The trouble is that the movie is a bit jumbled and predictable when it isn't going back and forth between the good guys and bad. Yes, it's contradictory to be jumbled and predictable, but somehow the movie manages to do both at the same time.

Claire Foy does a good job in her role, as do all the actors, but like "The Snowman", "The Girl in the Spider's Web" could have benefitted from a less spy vs. spy feel and perhaps focus on the vigilantism promised in the trailer.

That plot would have been more interesting, as far as I'm concerned.