In Hanna high brow Oscar winning director, Joe Wright, (Atonement, Pride and Prejudice) seems to be trying to prove that he can get down with an action film for the masses. The end result is a very stylized suspense thriller and, while it’s heavy on the action, it’s more of a character study of a sixteen year old girl who was raised with only one objective; to be the perfect killer.
Hanna, the daughter of a murdered C.I.A. operative, is raised in the isolated woods of Finland. The movie’s tagline is “Adapt or Die” and that’s exactly what we see Hanna doing in the movie’s opening minutes. She kills a huge deer with a bow and arrow (and drags it home), speaks several languages and, while “training” with her dad, the student gets the best of the teacher and almost snaps his neck. This is one bad little girl.
Saoirse Ronan plays Hanna. Eric Bana is her dad and Cate Blanchett is the C.I.A. agent who wants to kill them both. Music from The Chemical Brothers adds a driving beat to the film and the 111 minutes flies by before you know it. Even with all the action there’s a lot of humor and adventure as the sixteen year old teenager ventures out of the woods and experiences modern technology, music and dancing and boys for the first time.
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