After being enlisted to recover a dangerous computer program, hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web of spies, cybercriminals and corrupt government officials.

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Film Cast:

• Lisbeth Salander: Claire Foy
• Mikael Blomkvist: Sverrir Gudnason
• Edwin Needham: LaKeith Stanfield
• Camilla Salander: Sylvia Hoeks
• Frans Balder: Stephen Merchant
• August Balder: Christopher Convery
• Jan Holster: Claes Bang
• Gabriella Grane: Synnøve Macody Lund
• Plague: Cameron Britton
• Erika Berger: Vicky Krieps
• Sofia: Andreja Pejić
• Alexander Zalachenko: Mikael Persbrandt
• Young Lisbeth Salander: Beau Gadsdon
• Young Camilla Salander: Carlotta von Falkenhayn
• Grane’s Home Security: Thomas Wingrich
• Camilla’s Driver: Andreas Tietz
• Malin Erikson: Paula Schramm
• Landlord: Anja Karmanski
• Peter Ahlgren: Volker Bruch
• Linda Ahlgren: Saskia Rosendahl
• Ove Levin: Pål Sverre Hagen
• NSA Officer: Christian Serritiello
• Cops: Damien Murphy
• Cops: Asuka Tovazzi
• Holster’s Driver: Daniel Stockhorst
• Seedy Looking Punk: Béla Gabor Lenz
• Reporter: Maddy Savage
• August’s Mother: Lea Faßbender
• Huge Skinhead: Tomas Jester
• Milos Meer: Hendrik Heutmann
• Dark Haired SAPO Agent: Volkram Zschiesche
• Naked Asian Woman: Sonja Chan
• Camilla’s Henchman: Felix Quinton
• Camilla’s Henchman: Alois Knapps
• Gabriella Grane’s Driver: Wolfgang Lindner
• Uniformed Cop 4: Sebastian Stielke
• Airport Employee: Sinha Melina Gierke
• Airport Policemen: Michael Bornhütter
• Airport Policemen: Oliver Juhrs
• Airport Policeman: Steffen Jung
• Detention Room Blonde Cop: Christian Zagia
• Waitress: Amalia Holm Bjelke

Film Crew:

• Executive Producer: Arnon Milchan
• Costume Design: Nancy Steiner
• Producer: Scott Rudin
• Editor: Tatiana S. Riegel
• Production Design: Eve Stewart
• Executive Producer: David Fincher
• Storyboard Artist: Axel Eichhorst
• Camera Operator: Jörg Widmer
• Electrician: Volker Vahl
• Dolly Grip: Christian Scheibe
• Additional Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Tony Lamberti
• Original Music Composer: Roque Baños
• Sound Mixer: Roland Winke
• Set Decoration: Yeşim Zolan
• Unit Production Manager: Arno Neubauer
• Screenplay: Steven Knight
• Tailor: Barbara Schramm
• Supervising Art Director: Denis Schnegg
• Production Executive: Sonja B. Zimmer
• Makeup Designer: Heike Merker
• Casting: Carmen Cuba
• Producer: Elizabeth Cantillon
• Characters: Stieg Larsson
• First Assistant Director: Alex Oakley
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Julian Slater
• Screenplay: Jay Basu
• Director of Photography: Pedro Luque
• Foley Mixer: Nerses Gezalyan
• Executive Producer: Søren Stærmose
• Director: Fede Álvarez
• Art Direction: Sabine Engelberg
• Producer: Eli Bush
• Music Editor: Del Spiva
• Sound Effects Editor: Robert Stambler
• Makeup & Hair: Dana Bieler
• Foley Artist: Robin Harlan
• Executive Producer: Ole Søndberg
• Art Direction: Daniel Chour
• Costume Design: Carlos Rosario
• Dialect Coach: William Conacher
• Second Unit Director: Klemens Becker
• Art Direction: Tarnia Nicol
• Costume Supervisor: Meike Schlegel
• Transportation Coordinator: Florian Haeger
• Key Costumer: Theresa Anna Luther
• Concept Artist: Elo Soode
• Assistant Costume Designer: Anette Czagany
• Sound Designer: Hamilton Sterling
• Foley Artist: Sarah Monat
• Sound Effects Editor: Karen Vassar Triest
• Camera Operator: Sebastian Meuschel
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Kevin O’Connell
• Still Photographer: Reiner Bajo
• Gaffer: Helmut Prein
• Sound Effects Editor: Ryan Collins
• Aerial Director of Photography: Jeremy Braben
• Location Manager: Klaus Große Darrelmann
• Sound Effects Editor: David Esparza
• Supervising Sound Editor: Mandell Winter
• Digital Intermediate Producer: Vanessa Galvez
• Key Costumer: Carrie Arakaki
• Music Editor: Maarten Hofmeijer
• Producer: Amy Pascal
• Script Supervisor: Aria Harrison
• Aerial Camera: Benjamin Frik
• Construction Manager: Dierk Grahlow
• Russian Arm Operator: Markus Kuballa
• ADR Mixer: Howard London
• Casting Associate: Shelby Cherniet
• Casting Director: Kate Ringsell
• Stunt Coordinator: Florian Hotz
• Second Assistant Camera: Fabio Seyding
• Special Effects Supervisor: Gerd Nefzer
• Makeup Supervisor: Annett Schulze
• Novel: David Lagercrantz
• Additional Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Jeremy B. Davis
• Casting Assistant: Amal El-Farfachi
• Sound Effects Editor: Ando Johnson
• First Assistant Editor: Daniel Boccoli
• Armorer: Lutz Zeidler
• Gaffer: Björn Susen
• Art Direction: Susannah Brough
• Property Master: Eckart Friz
• Visual Effects Producer: Sebastian Meszmann
• Casting Associate: Judith Sunga
• Armorer: Sven Hübner
• Fight Choreographer: Yoon Cha-Lee
• Pyrotechnician: Marcus Preussing
• First Assistant Camera: Alexander Sachariew
• Key Grip: Jan Brun
• Electrician: Martin Lieckfeld
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Alejandro Damiani
• Set Costumer: Dorothea Kulhawy
• Key Grip: Glenn König
• ADR Mixer: Jan Kasskawo
• First Assistant Director: Scott Kirby
• Aerial Camera: Marcus CF. Tinnerholm
• Assistant Art Director: Josef Brandl
• Boom Operator: Thomas Wallis
• First Assistant Camera: Won-suk Park
• Sound Effects Editor: Will Digby
• Assistant Set Decoration: Nele Jordan
• Sound Mixer: Caspar Sachsse
• Textile Artist: John Ringhoff
• Dialogue Editor: Micah Loken
• Scenic Artist: Enzo Enzel
• Dolly Grip: Elmar Suska
• ADR Mixer: Aaron Hasson
• Music Producer: Tessy Díez
• Visual Effects Editor: Timur Yesilfiliz
• In Memory Of: Thilo Ewers
• ADR Mixer: Brian Smith
• Producer: Berna Levin
• Electrician: Rasmus Frostell
• Graphic Designer: Henning Brehm
• Publicist: Carolin Bitzer
• Musician: Michael Linus Bock
• Second Second Assistant Director: Nick Laurence
• Casting Assistant: Ann Trimble
• Lighting Technician: Daniel Jopp
• Compositing Supervisor: Mark Spindler
• Health and Safety: Grit Belitz
• Second Assistant Camera: Alexander Kohn
• Makeup & Hair: Julia Böhm
• Makeup & Hair: Andrea Pirchner
• Makeup & Hair: Irina Schwarz
• Aerial Camera: Stefan Müller
• Clapper Loader: Annemarie Chladek
• Clapper Loader: Lasse Liebelt
• Digital Imaging Technician: Rodrigo Gomez
• Digital Imaging Technician: Christian Kuss
• Electrician: Philipp Barth
• First Assistant Camera: Maximilian Günther
• First Assistant Camera: Sascha Werdehausen
• First Assistant Camera: Hanna Kriisa
• Key Grip: Mathias Riemann
• Lighting Technician: Michael Wahlberg
• Second Assistant Camera: Ingo Blacha
• Second Assistant Camera: Mitch Bozzo
• Second Assistant Camera: Julian Bubeck
• Second Assistant Camera: Carola Rodriguez Sanchez
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Johanna Lucha
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Lisa Mundt
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Tamara Tadic
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Wei Wei
• Visual Effects Editor: Mathías Chumino
• Visual Effects Editor: Thomas Weckenmann
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Javier Cruzado
• Compositing Supervisor: Falk Hofmann
• Assistant Costume Designer: Aisha Kascioglu
• Costume Illustrator: James Casey Holland
• Costume Supervisor: Yasemin Kascioglu
• Costumer: Caitlin Hodder
• Key Costumer: Georgina Brown
• Textile Artist: Jan Dieckmann
• Casting Assistant: McKenzie Brodnick
• Casting Assistant: Katie Feigenbaum
• Extras Casting Assistant: Patrick Winkler
• Colorist: Maiken Priedemann
• First Assistant Accountant: Joshua Aufrance
• Location Coordinator: Patrik Vasiljev
• Production Accountant: Johannes Schwerdt
• Script Supervisor: Björn S. Berger
• Travel Coordinator: Jenifère Nieschmidt
• Musician: Álvaro Gallego
• Picture Car Coordinator: Jan Kubkowski
• Set Designer: Sarah Wibbeler
• Concept Artist: Leif Heanzo
• Leadman: Attila Krüziu
• Set Designer: Natascha Matzat
• Rigging Gaffer: Oliver Haas
• Score Engineer: Daniel Galindo
• Location Manager: Jonathan Elfving

Movie Reviews:

• mram16: Lackluster entry in the Millennium film series:A solid performance by Claire Foy (First Man, Unsane) can’t do much to elevate a weak script that, quite often, not only asks you to suspend your disbelief, but to abandon your disbelief altogether.

  This film is based on the fourth of five books (to date) in the popular “Millennium” series of novels, which happens to be the first of the books written by author David Lagercrantz after the passing of original author Stieg Larsson. The first three books were adapted into a trilogy of films in their native Sweden (all of which were released in 2009), and the first book, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, was given an American adaptation helmed by David Fincher in 2011.

  The story of the newest entry in the film series revolves around a top-secret program called Firefall, which would allow whoever wields it to take control of the world’s nuclear weapons. The program was designed by Frans Balder (Stephen Merchant), who has a young autistic son. Balder, having come to realize that the program is too dangerous for any government to control, contacts super-hacker Lisbeth Salander (Foy), asking for her help to find and destroy the program. Unknown to them,however, a mysterious group known only as the Spiders are also after the program. Salander receives help along the way from good friend Mikael Blomkvist (Sverrir Gudnason), a journalist working for Millennium magazine (from which the book series gets its name). In the meantime, Lisbeth’s attempt to acquire the Firefall program leads American National Security Agency security expert Edwin Needham (LaKeith Stanfield) to travel to Sweden in hopes of tracking her down.

  Action abounds, and as the film progresses we learn the identity of the leader of the Spiders, a secret tied to Salander’s murky past. Eventually all parties converge on a house in the mountains that is all-too-familiar to Salander, where the film’s climax plays out.

  The film appears to retcon certain details from the previous films (e.g. Blomkvist is younger than he should be), which can be off-putting to those familiar with those films.. Vicky Krieps, who audiences may remember from her fantastic performance in 2017’s Phantom Thread, is wasted in a brief appearance as Millennium’s publisher Erika Berger. While Salander has been established as a first-class hacker in previous films (as well as in the books on which they’re based), here her hacking skills often reach levels of unbelievability. An example of this: in one scene Salander hacks into a car’s systems while actively pursuing in another car.

  In the end we are left with a film that could have been greater than it is, but which was hobbled by a poor script filled with overly convenient contrivances. The film’s one saving grace is Foy, who does the most with what she is given.

• thecrustycurmudgeon: While I enjoyed this film, it was a bit of a disappointment compared to the others in this series. As noted by other reviews, the film is haunted by an incredibly poor script. On the other hand, the action is pretty good if you can tolerate the long, poorly scripted scenes in between.The film tries too hard to surpise us with twists, some of which are predictable and others which are just flat. Some of the circumstances in the film are far-fetched. I don’t mind suspending belief a bit, but this is neither a fantasy or a science fiction film, so there should be some reasonable level of reality. Several scenes are just ridiculously beyond reason and logic.

  Claire Foy is an excellent actress and I like watching her. She did the best she could with this script. It’s unfortunate that the directors chose to portray her as a bit haggard and completely without sex appeal. Certainly, the character of Lisbeth Salander is intended to be a nonconforming ruffian, but Claire Foys’ depiction of her is considerably rougher than Rooney Mara’s and far less sexually-charged than Noomi Rapace’s. This is a shame as Claire Foy does have sex appeal; she either chose or was not encouraged to to use it here.

  It’s an acceptable addition to this series, but it’s mediocre in comparison to it’s predecessors.