This film is based on the fourth book in a series but David Lagercrantz wrote this novel and not Stieg
Larsson. Stieg had planned to
write ten books about Lizbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist but he passed away
in 2004. Lisbeth Salander is a
vigilante hacker in Stockholm, Sweden.
She is hired by computer programmer Frans Balder to retrieve
Firefall. This is a program able
to access the world’s nuclear codes.
Balder developed these codes for the National Security Agency. He now believes the codes are too
dangerous to exist. Lisbeth
successfully retrieves Firefall from the NSA servers but she is unable to
unlock the program. Agent Edwin
Needham is aware that Lisbeth has obtained th program. Mercenaries led by Jan Holster steal
the program and they attempt to kill Lisbeth. Balder believes Llisbeth decided to keep Firefall for
herself when she doesn’t meet him at their rendezvous site. He contacts Gabrelle Grane, she is the
deputy director of the Swedish Security Service. Gabrelle moves Balder and his young son August to a safe
house. Needham tracks the login to
Stockholm and now he’s looking for Lisbeth and the program.
There is a LOT going
on in this film and sometimes it’s difficult to keep track of the people involved in
the spy world!! Even if you can follow the characters, they can suddenly change sides on you? I don't think Claire Foy is as much of a heavyweight in this role as Noomi Rapce? She is the previous actress in the role of Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo 2009, The Girl Who Played with Fire 2009 and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest? Noomi is a triple threat and she was certainly tough enough but it's also questionable about Rooney Mara?
117 min,
Action directed by Fede Alvarez with Claire Foy, Beau Gadsdon, Sverrir
Gudnason, LaKeith Stanfield, Sylvia Hoeks, Carlotta von Falkenhayn, Stephen
Merchant, Christopher Convery, Claes Bang, Synnove Macody Lund, Cameron
Britton, Vicky Krieps, Andreja Pejic.
Note: Goodreads gives the book 3.76* out of
5* with 114,688 ratings and 12,148 reviews, Imdb 6.1 out of 10, Roger Ebert 1
1/2* out of 5*, Rotten Tomatoes 40% critic 36% audience, RollingStone 3 ½* out
of 5* Peter Travers, EmpireOnline 3* out of 5* Alex Godfrey, Amazon 3.6* out of
5* with 466 reviews.
Special
Note: Filmed in Stockholm and
Leipzig/Halle Airport, Sweden; Berlin and Hamburg, Germany. Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara were upset
the casting for this film. They
were fully committed to a sequel but their last film was a box office
disappointment. Natalie Portman
and Scarlett Johansson were originally considered for the film prior to this
one and were in talks for this film.
Felicity Jones and Alicia Vikander were also considered. The budget was $43 million
and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo of 2011 had a $90 million budget. One of the reasons given for the
financial failure of the previous film was the overblown budget? This film still flopped even with a much small production budget. Claire
Foy was inspired to get a few real tattoos of her own after sporting Lisbeth’s
tattoos.
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