“The Girl in the Spider’s Web” is the American sequel to David Fincher’s “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” with Claire Foy replacing Rooney Mara as the lead role of Lisbeth Salander.
If you were a fan of Steig Larsson’s Millennium book series, this is the fourth novel in succession, but written by David Lagercrantz after Larsson’s death. This newest film, written by Steven Knight (“Woman Walks Ahead”), and directed by Fede Alvarez (“Don’t Breathe”), stands alone as a story, but, unfortunately, there’s not much story to be told.
Lisbeth (Foy), after suffering years of sexual abuse and escaping, leaving her sister behind to be subjected to the years of future abuse by her father, is now an adult with a single mission: to rescue abused women and mete out punishment to their abusers.
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