Hanna

I just watched a film called Hanna.I wouldn't recommend it, it was a bit rubbish. At times it was taking cues from the Bourne films (Hanna is a government agent-assassin who uses brutal hand to hand combat). At others it was taking them from the Resident Evil films (she runs away a lot). It even imitates some of Tarantino's flicks in some parts (the larger than life family she travels with and the charismatic bad guy archetypes). I have no problem with films copying from other films - that's how creativity works. The problem is Hanna just couldn't decide what it was trying to be, and the result was really bland.

I would love to be a film critic in another life. But I can't be bothered to write a full review. Here is a list of 10 things I can think of that were wrong with Hanna:





















1. The amazingly unsubtle use of eyes on the wall when the Dad character is being followed. That isn't how atmosphere works.
2. The dull, Bourne-inspired fight scenes. Which never made any sense.
3. The annoyingly endearing and pointless family Hanna travels with. Why?
4. Hanna's awkward encounter with a spanish boy.
5. hanna's awkward encounter with electricity. Seriously, as if her Dad taught her to fight, navigate, survive in the wild, speak foreign languages, etc. but never at any point mentioned electricity?!
6. Whenever the film was trying to be poignant. At least, I think it was...
7. The bad characters were German skinheads. Why?
8. Hanna spends most of the film running from them, even though she can easily beat them in hand to hand combat.
9. She says she doesn't want to hurt anyone anymore, but the movie ends with her killing Cate Blanchett pretty much in cold blood. And Cate Blanchett's character was the best thing about this movie.
10. When she finds out she is a scientific experiment and it's supposed to be some incredible plot-twist. Seriously? The blond-haired blue-eyed albino girl with the strength to kill a bunch of soldiers with her bare hands isn't human?? Didn't see that one coming.