Monday 9 May 2011

MOVIE REVIEW: HANNA (12A)

"OK MOVIE WITH PLOT HOLES"
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HANNA is an Action Thriller film Directed by Joe Wright (same guy that brought us The Soloist, 2009) This film is about a 16 Year Old girl who’s been raised by her father to become the perfect assassin. She is being sent on missions across Europe while being chased by a ruthless intelligence agent and her operatives. Its Starring Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana, Cate Blanchett, Tom Hollander, Paris Arrowsmith, Olivia Williams, Jason Flemyng, John MacMillan, Tim Beckham & Nathan Nolan.
THE REVIEW:
When we saw the trailer we was intrigued to see a little blonde girl running around shooting guns and professionally killing people with hand combat that’s just breath-taking to watch. We couldn’t remember the last time we saw a Movie that looked like a serious young killer.

After watching this motion picture distributed by Focus Features Slides & Smalls felt a little tricked because of the action we got in the trailer was pretty much the best bits of the whole film. We was expecting more blow out action packed scenes of guns, fights, explosions to go with a fast paced storyline. Instead Hanna started off promising but then goes into a journey of self-discovery & friendship making (certainly was not expecting that). The middle part of the film is boring and felt like the storyline was changing into something else, other characters start to play bigger roles than her and it just didn’t feel like she was this main person we was all meant to be watching. Luckily they get back on track (sort of) and she continues on her journey of ass kicking but had some unexplainable plot holes (like how she shoots arrow without the bow). The story only takes form right at the end because before that we don’t really get a sense to how everyone is connected what their motives are for what they are doing. Our main characters fight scenes are really the only good ones to watch the rest are were very amateur.

Saoirse was a good lead, she played this trained killer very well. Bana, Blamchett, Hollander, Arrowsmith, Williams all pull off good performances.
OVERALL: OK Movie.
 STAR RATINGS OUT OF 5:  3
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ONE FAVOURITE MOMENT IN THE FILM:
The Holding room scene where Hanna (Ronan) comes face to face with a pretend Marissa (Blanchett)
(if you loved another moment in the film, please feel free to share it with us in the comments)
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