The Girl In The Spider's Web (Movie 2018)

The Girl In The Spider's Web is the follow up to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. I had such high expectations for this but it just didn't deliver. Whereas the first had such depth and complexity The Spider's Web was so simplistic and dull. Claire Foy ( The Crown) takes the role this time of Elisabeth Salander. She puts in a decent enough performance though there wasn't much for her to work with. In this film Elisabeth is hired to steal a computer program that can access nuclear weapon codes by the creator of it. But soon the NSA and the Russian underworld come searching for it. There was so much that could have been tapped into here that only touched the surface. They could have played more on the obvious attraction and tension between Elisabeth and Mikael Blomkvist but that was just a glance here or there. They should have expanded more on her sister Camilla. Her character was as good as a cardboard cutout. I couldn't hate her or feel bad for her. There wasn't anything to see or give me any investment in these characters. And I didn't even have the action sequences to fall back on for excitement. Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive in a movie trailer. I was promised so much in that preview but it didn't happen.