The Girl in the Spider's Web

Claire Foy takes a turn as Lisbeth Salander in this new iteration based on "characters created by Stieg Larsson (now dearly departed).  While I expect he would like to see others having a turn, I did try and read this book before and it really couldn't compare to the other 3.

All other 3 Larsson books were made into Swedish language movies and were excellent.  David Fincher's version of Dragon Tattoo was well done.  In fact he returns as Executive Producer here.  Just enough, but it'd be nice to have more.

Lisbeth and Mikael return, this time to recover some state secrets.  But she is robbed by even badder guys and she of course seeks revenge.  The movie reminded me of a female version of Mission Impossible (which is awesome!) but it degenerates into more creative ways to show torture and violence.  Not my favorite big screen shots.

Probably closest in plot to the 3rd book Hornet's Nest which mainly deals with Swedish secret police, SAPO.

Also starring Lakeith Stanfield in a winning performance.

* * * of 5