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Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) is 16 years old. She is bright, inquisitive, and a devoted daughter. Uniquely, she has the strength, the stamina, and the smarts of a soldier; these come from being raised by her... read more read more... widowed father Erik (Eric Bana), an ex-CIA man, in the wilds of North Finland. Erik has taught Hanna to hunt, put her through extreme self-defense workouts, and home-schooled her with only an encyclopedia and a book of fairy tales. Hanna has been living a life unlike any other teenager; her upbringing and training have been one and the same, all geared to making her the perfect assassin. But out in the world there is unfinished business for Hanna's family, and it is with a combination of pride and apprehension that Erik realizes his daughter can no longer be held back. -- (C) Focus Features

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PG-13, 1 hr. 51 min.

Directed by: Joe Wright

Release Date: April 8, 2011

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  • aquateen2
    March 31, 2012
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    "I just missed your heart". Well Hanna you certainly didn't miss mine. The premise of this relaxed thriller is primarily revenge but the film was strangely emotional and the slow pacing and largely suita... read moreble soundtrack just enhances it's overwhelmingly powerful ability to do so. It's that emotion that made me love this film. It's hard to make an action thriller and have a constantly fascinating lead character. This is all as a result of the superb acting by Saoirse Ronan with an absolutely perfect supporting cast. Eric Bana is flawless in all of his scenes on screen and honestly I can't think of anything negative about it. Hanna is highly remarkable and one of the best thriller's i've seen in a while. The action sequences are perfectly shot, the direction isn't flimsy and it thrills and engages the audience with absolute ease.
  • paulsandberg
    March 26, 2012
    paulsandberg
    Take an interesting twist on the well worn revenge action film, toss in some very artfull cinematics, a mesmerizing performance by Saorse Ronin in the title role; add a quirky yet effective turn by Cate Blanchett as the villain of the piece and you have... a film that still some... read morehow fails to equal the sum of its parts; though it's hard to say why I wasn't more absorbed into this film of a young girl trained almost since birth to be an assassin.

    Perhaps it's because the culture shock part of the film was overplayed - young Hanna, for all her skills (knowing all about a lot of things but having no practical experience with them - like electricity for example), is too often portrayed as a fish out of water, a overused theme that quickly becomes tiresome.

    The film starts well enough, giving you ample time to get the feel for Hanna's secluded life in rural Finland, being "homeschooled" by her father - though I had issues with his reading simple texts to her while she is able to speak a dozen languages. This is explained, sort of, when the CIA gets involved, but remained irksome.

    There is a backstory that I'm not going to reveal, only to say that the whole CIA black ops thing is really a poor motivation for the actions of agent Mirissa, played as an ice queen by Blanchett- though she is wonderful in the part.

    Perhaps it is all this murkiness that bothers me - falling back on the old CIA cover up for things they shouldn't have been playing with in the first place takes the viewer down a very familiar path, already done to death by Bourne and M.I. franchises. That this film has some really nice action sequences and some artsy fartsy film shots is all fine and well, but doesn't hide the fact that at it's core this film has been done hundred of times before. Too bad, as the director seems to have a firm handle on what is being presented, and the acting is solid... but the script, especially during the girl meets the real world segments, and the final action packed quarter of the film, could have certainly been tighter(though I have to admit the use of the quirky derelict amusement park was wonderful).

    I also found that the film's ending, echoing the beginning, was a bit over the top - as if the screen writer got this brilliant, last second idea that it would be really cool to have Hanna say the same words at the end that she says at the beginning - only problem is that it comes off very juvenile and let's your mind think "oh come on, you couldn't have come up with something better? How about "Hasta la vista, baby"? Yeah, maybe that'll sell in the heartland.
  • spielberg00
    March 18, 2012
    spielberg00
    It's pretty easy to tell that HANNA was written by two different people, because both writers had polar opposite interpretations of the mood. The fact that the film begins in the wilderness with the same tone as it does when it ends on an amusement park ride should immediately te... read morell you something about it. HANNA is thrilling altogether, but there seems to be hidden jumps between the more ingenious points and the silly points that are intended to get your heart racing.

    It seems, slowly but surely, we may officially have a new subgenre for spy movies. These are the ones that feature female secret agents. Two years ago, we had SALT, this year, HAYWIRE, and last year, we had HANNA. Let's hope that when women become cinematic spies more often, they model after Ronan's character here. Though the film may bear the certificate from the MPAA, let me warn you this is NOT a real PG-13 movie. The intensely, carefully, quickly assembled violence Saoirse Ronan puts on is quite brutal. Tied in with her vengeful attitude, it works out well--her character as well as the film in general.
  • fb1463751009
    March 10, 2012
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    "Hanna" is a much more methodically slower paced but meticulously detailed film. The tension that the story built up, crept up on me throughout the film. By the end, "Hanna" succeeded to get me involved and propelled me through the exciting action sequences with the help of an en... read moregrossing score. Saoirse Ronan as the title character was marvelous; she was captivating in every scene. To say "Hanna" is a uniquely stylized movie is an understatement. Its reminiscent to the German movie, "Run Lola Run". The visuals grasp your attention and has very vibrant colors. "Hanna"'s not a movie for everyone; it is different from many thrillers but the subtly that "Hanna" carries makes this film one of my favorites of 2011. Really enjoyed this movie. Loved it.
  • fb100001592288964
    March 3, 2012
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    Watching this on its HBO premiere reminds me of how criminally underrated this film is.
  • fb1672039553
    February 24, 2012
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    The first 30 minutes sets up a tall order, but the last half doesn't follow through. This movie is "Jungle to Jungle"/"Tarzan" meeting "Bourne", where our young heroin, isolated in the arctic forests, wants to experience the world that she has only read about, all while the CIA i... read mores trying to kill her. The catalyst for the CIA response is a switch her father tells her to flip to let the CIA know their location (and that they are indeed alive). I cannot understand any logic behind her father wanting this to happen or why Hanna didn't just say no and leave the forest on her own. She is clearly capable of handling herself - she demonstrates this a few hours after flipping the switch. The logic behind the premise gets even more hairy as Hanna uncovers the reason she is being hunted. Still, there are a lot of good action and non-action scenes with Hanna experiencing human relationships for the first time, and the unique soundtrack was an event itself.
  • fb7018436
    January 10, 2012
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    Apart from the usual "The CIA is evil" stereotype it manages to emerge as a surprisingly well executed action suspense thriller with deeper character development than traditional movies in it's genre.
  • DragonEyeMorrison
    December 31, 2011
    DragonEyeMorrison
    Fun and engaging thriller, good cast. There's of course several things that rub you in the wrong way, why would a top female goverment agent recruit the help of an euro-trash german bar owner, and his useless skinhead goons? You would think that she would try to get someone far m... read moreore skilled to catch a genetically build super female soldier. There's a nice sense of tension, and the action sequences are directed with a good eye for them, no jerky asspergers camera here. Way above your average hollywood action thriller.
  • fb1038944442
    December 28, 2011
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    Hanna is a refreshing take on the international high tech thriller genre. The story is absurd and defies credulity, but it's so full of unexpected visuals and surprising scenes that I watched the whole thing with rapt interest.

    It's about a genetically modified child who's been... read more bred to be an international spy and murderer who's kept cloistered in the Arctic by her spy father (Eric Bana, solid as a rock) till she becomes a teen. This girl has never seen electricity in action, but speaks every known language and can kill any wild animal (and any human) that she faces with her super human strength and intelligence. Idiotic, but so well executed and visually interesting that you won't care.

    When Hanna hits the world, she's hunted by Marissa, the CIA hack who created her, an evil Kate Blanchett in her worst ever movie role (and I love her in everything else). She is such an over the top cackling villainess, that she stops being interesting.

    Even that doesn't matter, because young Siorise Ronan is mezmerizing and the main reason to see this film. The idea of a super genius who's also a naive lamb in the woods is illogical and almost impossible to pull off, but this gifted kid (Atonement) does it. This kid never met another human being besides her fur clad dad, but she has such powers of perception and intuition that when she goes into civilization, she anticipates everyone's moves, two moves ahead, except when it's not convenient for the plot and then she's totally at sea.

    There is so much originality and imagination brought to the genre, that Hanna's silly fable like quality is outweighed by all that's good about this. If director Joe Wright could make this one succeed, imagine if he had a great script to direct? (Well, he did Atonement, so another great script, go Joe!)
  • cosmo313
    December 14, 2011
    cosmo313
    Well, what we have here is basically one of the Bourne films, but with a 16 year-old girl. There's a bit more to it, but that's a pretty good way to generalize it. Hanna has spent her whole life living in isolation in the Finnish wilderness. Her father Erik is ex-CIA and has pass... read moreed down to her his knowledge of comabt and survival, making her a skilled assassin, preparing to send her out into the world to assassinate a ruthless intelligence operative Marissa Wiegler, a woman with some dark secrets.

    What sets this movie apart is the character of Hanna herself. She is a formidable weapon, but none of her training/home schooling included any real information about the world or any kind of socialization. The middle section of the film, when Hanna is on the run across North Africa and Europe, is really the most interesting because it shows her discovering the world, and having to learn on her own things that everyone should know by the age of 16, and how to really become more human. It's kinda like the scenes in Terminator 2 where John tries to show how the terminator how to better pass himself off as a human.

    So yeah, this movie is a mixture of spy thriller intrigue, pulse pounding action, and a coming of age character study. I think director Joe Wright described it as a drama with some action scenes, or something along those lines. This is a lot of stuff to try to blend together and make work ,and for the most part, it does. It's not the most original film, but it is nonetheless a very solid and stylish attempt at making old new.

    The cinematography is top notch, complete with some great landscape shots, and some cool sequences involving lots of pulsing lights and flashy colors. Wright is known for his use of long takes, and that applies here, though unlike what he did in Atonement (of which I've only seen just a few scenes) his use of them is far more restrained and not self indulgant or pretentious. The score is done by techno duo The Chemical Brothers and, though I'm not a big fan of techno, I do kinda like it, and it works decently here, though some of the sequences do comes as like a music video at times.

    As far as acting goes, this is another piece of evidence to show why Saoirse Ronan is an actress that is one to watch and should have a long career ahead of her. The role of Hanna is a tough one, and she does really well and is convincing with both the intensely physical side of things, but more importantly with the more human side as well. She can both kick ass and perfectly pull off the effects of isolation and lack of socialization. Eric Bana is decent enough as her father Erik, and Cate Blanchett takes what could have been a routine and boring antagonist role and breathes a bit of life into it. Tom Hollander was decently creepy and intimidating as one of the men hunting Hanna, but sadly underdeveloped and flat.

    All in all, I enjoyed this quite a bit. It's stylish, holds your attention, and gives depth and substance to the well worn action revenge thriller. It's not totally original, but it's very solid. I do have some complaints, though. The little British girl was really annoying and got on my nerves way too often, Blanchett's accent stuck out and seemed unnecessary, and some of the symbolism seemed a bit more obvious and forced than it should have. I also could have used a few more crazy and kinetic action scenes, but that's a minor quibble.

    All that aside, this is a pretty good film and it gets the job done better than most other action films as of late. As far as the rating, I give it around a very strong B to a light B+

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David Denby
April 25, 2011
David Denby, New Yorker

An entertainingly nutty action thriller from the director Joe Wright. Full Review

Kenneth Turan
April 11, 2011
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

Blessed with considerable virtues, including a clever concept, crackling filmmaking and a charismatic star, it ultimately squanders all of them, undone by an unfortunate lack of subtlety and restraint. Full Review

David Edelstein
April 11, 2011
David Edelstein, New York Magazine

What keeps us hooked is Ronan, a young actress of seemingly limitless abilities, and the tension she creates between Hanna's inhumanly agile body and quizzical eyes, which turn cold only when she pull... Full Review

Peter Rainer
April 9, 2011
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor

This film is bound to give the home-schooling movement a bad name, unless, of course, you're running a home school for assassins. Full Review

Lisa Kennedy
April 8, 2011
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post

"Hanna" plays out as a visceral fairy tale about a naif discovering a world both fascinating and dangerous. Full Review

Tom Long
April 8, 2011
Tom Long, Detroit News

Saoirse Ronan is a talented young actress who tends to be better than the movies she's in. And that tendency holds true with "Hanna," an unsteady thriller that staggers when it should sprint. Full Review

Stephen Whitty
April 8, 2011
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

I gave up trying to keep track of the plot and wondered, Just what the hell is going on here? Full Review

Rick Groen
April 8, 2011
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail

Hanna is far from perfect but, courtesy of star Saoirse Ronan and director Joe Wright, it's one of those imperfect pictures that manages to command and hold our attention straight from the opening fra... Full Review

Joe Neumaier
April 8, 2011
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News

The forced coming-of-age parable that filmmaker Joe Wright laces with fairy-tale symbolism is heavy-handed from the get-go. Full Review

Michael O'Sullivan
April 8, 2011
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

Is it a great movie? No. Nagging questions and plot holes start appearing the minute the endorphins and adrenaline wear off. But it isn't a bad one, either. Full Review

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    • Hanna: Come and find me.
    • Moroccan Hotel Owner: Where do you come from?
    • Hanna: The forest.
    • Sebastian: So Hanna, is your mum and Dad still together?
    • Hanna: My mother is dead.
    • Sophie: [to Sebastian] Nice one, Dad.
    • Sebastian: I'm sorry to hear that. I lost my mum when I was very young, so...
    • Hanna: It's all right. It happened a long time ago.
    • Rachel: Hanna, what did your mum die of?
    • Hanna: Three bullets.
    • Erik: Music. A combination of sounds, with a view to beauty of form and expression of emotion.
    • Hanna: I just missed your heart.
    • Marissa: He knows things you don't want to know.
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