Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Hanna ~ scary girl, lame plot, scarier acting.


Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) is a 16 year old assassin, trained from birth by Erik (Eric Bana) her ex-CIA “Papa.” She has only one mission in life, to kill Marissa (Cate Blanchett) a ruthless operative, and well… it sounds way more interesting than the movie actually was.

The movie alludes to the fact that Hanna was the subject of an experiment to make the ultimate soldier, and somewhere along the like, Erik tried to protect Hanna’s mother from Marissa who was bent on cleaning up loose ends when the project was scrapped. That’s it, now you can movie to another movie in the DVD queue. Basically the whole movie is Marissa hunting down Hanna and the ultimate lackluster showdown.

The acting is bad, the accents are bad, the plot is lame, the execution dragged on, and the fight scenes weren’t very entertaining. This was one of the movies where I wanted Hanna to get killed and “let’s just get the movie over with.” Somewhere along the line, Hanna hooks up with a dysfunctional family whom she befriends, and really there’s no point to it. The director apparently wanted us to see how this girl is finding out who she is, but fails. Add in that it's all in foreign lands with bizarre characters which never really get established, and have no point at all and you'll feel like some joke was just played on you, except you don't know the punchline.

I wouldn’t waste too much time deciding on the one. 

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