Review of The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018) by Fj007 — 05 Dec 2020

This is a surprisingly bad movie. It seems as if the writer, the director and the actors had no interest at all in making this movie. The casting is terrible, only some of the minor characters are really fine like Cameron Britton as Plague or LaKeith Stanfield as Needham.

The writer(s) did not simplify the book by Larsson, which certainly would have been necessary, but completely rewrote it, dumbing it down into a caricature of an action movie in the process. While it is a strength of the books and of the other movies based on them, to embed the plot in a tight web of well-conceived characters and (sometimes) plausible depicted institutions, here all is reduced to stereotypes taken from other US-American B-movies.