HANNA REVIEW

If you want to see a movie where an actor has really arrived on the scene, and cemented herself as a major player, this is it. Hanna is Saoirse Ronan’s big moment. Sure we’ve had the Lovely Bones and Atonement amongst others, but this is it. This is the big one!

Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) is a teenage girl who is raised by her father, an ex CIA bloke (Eric Bana). instead of walks in the park, happy meals and care bears, Hanna is raised in the wilds of Finland. Here she is trained to be the baddest ass teenager your ever likely to meet. And all this training isn’t for the Olympics, it’s turning Hanna into the perfect assassin. She  is sent into the real world by her father on a mission and she thunders across Europe, being chased down by a a hardnosed intelligence operative (Cate Blanchett), all the while discovering there’s more to life than what she knows.

So here lies a rock solid piece of entertainment. The tagline for Hanna is Young. Sweet. Innocent. Deadly and Ronan carries each one of these off with ease. To her credit there is a wide and varied, let alone physical, aspect to her performance and it all draws the audience in, every step of the way. The same can also be said for Eric Bana, who again has quite a solid performance here, being entirely convincing along the way. And Cate Blanchett, with limited screen time makes every second count as she conveys seriously bad ass-ism. For the action fans, there is plenty to keep you oogling at the screen as bodies are stacked up and various shit blows up! And the action scenes are incredibly well done and tightly edited and like the rest of the movie, are quite organic and never look forced or false.

The whole movie is tied together quite well by Joe Wright, in particular a few choice words at the beginning and at the end give an overall feeling of hige satisfaction. And that’s it in a nutshell! Hanna is a solid, entertaining and satisfying flick that should be on your list to go see ASAP!