Lisbeth Salander goes around Stockholm as a female vigilante, sticking up for abused women who can't stick up for themselves. She is hired to retrieve a computer programme, but finds herself targeted by various factions.
Claire Foy plays the tattooed Lisbeth in a story which is not by Stieg Larsson. It is full of action, intrigue, and things which you may or may not see coming (you should, they are telegraphed strongly enough). It's never a dull moment. Something is always happening, and it looks so cold that you wonder why people live there.
And then you come out and you're no longer in the moment, so you start thinking about things, and you realise that a great deal of what you have just watched makes no sense at all, starting with the maguffin - sorry, computer program - that all the excitement is about. This program can access all the world's nuclear codes from anywhere. You can't copy it, but you can move it. How does that work, then?
The cast are all good, but the film is all noise and no substance.
Claire Foy plays the tattooed Lisbeth in a story which is not by Stieg Larsson. It is full of action, intrigue, and things which you may or may not see coming (you should, they are telegraphed strongly enough). It's never a dull moment. Something is always happening, and it looks so cold that you wonder why people live there.
And then you come out and you're no longer in the moment, so you start thinking about things, and you realise that a great deal of what you have just watched makes no sense at all, starting with the maguffin - sorry, computer program - that all the excitement is about. This program can access all the world's nuclear codes from anywhere. You can't copy it, but you can move it. How does that work, then?
The cast are all good, but the film is all noise and no substance.