The life of a 16 year old girl named Hanna, who has been raised in a hard environment of Finland, where her father works as CIA agent, who teaches her the courageous and martial skills, the thing that makes her distinct from other girls of her age, has been changed completely upon making a dangerous bloody mission across Europe.
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.
"Hanna" plays out as a visceral fairy tale about a naif discovering a world both fascinating and dangerous.
The Patriot Ledger
May 26, 2013
It's like an amusement park ride operating in the middle of a rave in which The Chemical Brothers provide a no-one-gets-out-alive thrust of unimpeded propulsion.
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 pulls the trigger.
Teenage assassin trained as a killing machine since birth? Unless your movie has Nicolas Cage dressed like Batman with a paedo-tache, you're fighting a losing battle from the start.
