Hanna
Raised by her father, an ex-CIA agent, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna's upbringing has been geared to making her the perfect assassin. Sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys across Europe, eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative. As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence.
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- Cast:
- Saoirse Ronan , Eric Bana , Cate Blanchett , Tom Hollander , Olivia Williams , Jason Flemyng , Tim Beckmann
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Such a frustrating disappointment
A waste of 90 minutes of my life
It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
Joe Wright's "Hanna" has to be one of the most surprising - and impressive - movies that I've seen. The action, and the title character's toughness make this one movie that you have to see. I understand that the movie incorporates fairy tale themes - the girl shielded from the world's harshness suddenly has to face it head-on - but it's possible to ignore that and simply admire how Hanna doesn't fear anyone (electrical objects, on the other hand...). I also liked how they play with the audience: at first it looks as if it's a story of a girl and her father living off the grid, but then the real story begins and doesn't let up.Having seen it all these years after it got released, it's interesting that some of the people involved in it are now notable from recent movies. Joe Wright directed "Darkest Hour", Saoirse Ronan starred in "Lady Bird" and Vicky Krieps starred in "Phantom Thread". But you can ignore that and enjoy the high-paced action (and pay attention to the social commentary).Good one.
A young girl grows up to be a fast lethal killer. A bit suggestive picture for a common action movie but I really liked the effort to make it a bit more at the art direction then the blow-everything-up direction. I liked the characters and the story. If you are a hardcore Marvel and DC fan maybe this movie seems a bit boring. But if you liked Léon and Jason Bourne maybe you will like Hanna. A refreshing action movie if you feel like every other Hollywood movie just constantly blow everything up.
Hanna is a modern day fairy tale, The Brothers Grimm meets Jason Bourne with plenty of lapses in logic.Saoirse Ronan is Hanna a teenage girl raised in the wilderness of Finland by her father, an ex-CIA operative Erik Heller (Eric Bana) who since her mother died raised her with the skills of an assassin. Erik realises that Hanna is at an age when she might be ready to see the outside world and the chaos this would bring.Cate Blanchett is a senior CIA agent Marissa Wiegler who wants to track down and kill them both. It seems Hanna was genetically modified in a secret CIA experiment many years earlier giving her exceptional abilities.Erik activated a beacon and leaves, instructing Hanna to meet him in Berlin. A CIA special forces team arrives to capture Hanna who is taken to an underground complex and escapes where Hanna seems to be very adept in surviving in the modern world such as using the internet when before she lived in a remote survivalist environment.Blanchett plays the wicked witch but we have little idea of her motives as to why she even kills innocent people. Once the action stops it becomes a rather derivative euro-plodding thriller. The Chemical Brothers soundtrack just reminds you that it wants to be a junior Jason Bourne.
The story of Hanna,is something you get dropped right in the middle off,and then have to figure out the background, piece by piece.Eric Bana does and just average job, as her father and mentor. But it doesn't look like he puts much effort in it. There is a lot of dwelling on scenes that really are only "page fillers" with no point in them,except to show what Hanna experience at that particular moment. The problem with them, is they dwell to long on them.They are of very little interest to the viewer.Watching 5-10 min. Of gypsy dancing is irrelevant for driving the story forward. And Hanna's expression is the same all the time.So you don't know how she feel about itAs someone else's pointed out you have to shut of your brain and just enjoy. But it get difficult when the movie can't keep the pace. The old JCV movies managed that quite well.You shut of your brain and just watch.But this one is too long,and too flawed.saoirse Ronan could use some more classes in showing emotion with you facial expressions. She unfortunately has a very stone faced expression.******Spoilers**********Spoilers********spoilers*******spoilers** What bother me is the very stereotypical approach to the whole thing. Hannas father(who is an ex secret agent/Assassin) has trained her to be a super assassin.Krav Maga,hunting killing,how to live of the land etc. But have totally failed to train her on social etiquette,and behavior. Which make no sense at all. How are you suppose to blend in when you stick out as a soar thumb. Sure you can't prepare them for everything,when you are just two people in a cabin in the woods.But some basic stuff would be expected.I get the feel the movie changed direction, and background on the characters midway. But all in all it's an OK movie. A bit to long for this type peharps