The Girl in the Spider's Web
43
metacriticBased on 38 Critics
50
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Release Date: November 9th, 2018

R |1 hr 57 min

Plot Summary

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.

Cast: Claire Foy, Beau Gadsdon, Sverrir Gudnason, Lakeith Stanfield, Sylvia Hoeks, Carlotta von Falkenhayn, Stephen Merchant, Christopher Convery

Director: Fede Alvarez

Genres: Thriller , Action

Production Co: Pascal Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions, The Cantillon Company, Yellow Bird

Distributors: Sony Pictures Entertainment, Columbia Pictures

Keywords: Gripping , Pursuit , 2010s , Suspenseful , Rivalry , Mystery

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  • 40
    Tim GriersonScreen International

    Lacking the freshness of the original trilogy or the meticulous, insidious tone of Fincher’s film, Spider’s Web mostly feels like a holding action to ensure that more sequels can be made in the future. That timidity flies in the face of this series’ inherent edginess. show more

  • 50
    Deborah YoungThe Hollywood Reporter

    The filmmakers take a heroic, action-packed, high-tech approach that empties out some of the originality of this unique female heroine. show more

  • 0
    Joe MorgensternWall Street Journal

    The stars were misaligned from the start for this frantic, turgid thriller. That’s no knock on Ms. Foy, who might have surprised us if she’d had a different director working from a different script under a different set of studio imperatives that didn’t involve extracting blood from a very cold stone. show more

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