Review of Hanna (2011) by Yana I — 03 Jan 2016

A girl is raised by her father in a forest to be a perfect assassin and go on a mission. The description makes the movie sound very promising, like it's a good action filled movie maybe more on a dark side.

Well that's where I was wrong when starting this movie.

Absolutely all the action that was happening was quite horrible. It was both performed very lousy and in general it was unrealistic.

Most importantly, though, I feel like the action and the fighting seemed to be really out of place. Often it looked like some kind of coming of age indie movie, with its cinematography, the dialogues and the scenes during the more calm moments with the family: in the camp and on the road. At those times I wished it was a coming of age indie film because those shots seemed to be the best ones, not the action filled ones.

Maybe I have a very subjective view on how action should look like, I don't know, but surely i'm not the only one noticing the plot holes. Because they seemed to be all over the place.

To begin with I really don't understand why the base was in Morocco and not in the US, but let's pretend they wanna show us how the US government is everywhere, WHO KNOWS.

Why Marissa hired those three barely trained skinheaded thugs if it was the matter of the national security?

Why was she the only one so concerned about it?

And the thing that still haunts me after i've finished the film: why did it look like Marissa had something very personal going on with Hanna? Up until the end I expected her to say she's her mother or something just as crazy, reveal some big plot twist at the end but i'm left unsatisfied and confused.

Cate Blanchett's acting was as usual amazing, and her character really did look in pain near the end everytime she looked at Hanna, like she wanted to say her something, like she was some kind of her long lost daughter she was oh so relieved to finally find, I don't know. I feel like a part of the movie was cut out and no one told me anything.

One more thing besides the slower scenes and Blanchett's acting that made the movie not as ridiculous as it could be was the soundtrack. Amazing tracks by the Chemical Brothers that didn't deserve the scenes they were placed on.

Underwhelming and dissapointing.