Saturday 10 November 2018

THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER'S WEB

Watchable. I loved "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" but in this part about Lisbeth Salander, with a different - although action-appropriate - actress, improbabilities pile up so badly it's an insult to your intelligence. I watched it only to see how it writes into the whole story. The movie's painfully derivative. The plot about a large-scale security operation and Lisbeth this time are so Bourne-like I waited to hear 'Blackbriar'. The beginning evokes associations with "X-Men" and Libby's sister becomes her arch enemy and as such wears a bright red almost-a-uniform. One of characters wears a mask covering his ripped out face which looks much like in the superhero genre. But it's neither a crime thriller nor a superhero flick. I liked the heartfelt sister-to-sister talk in the finale.

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