AS IF to show his versatility, the British director Joe Wright has opted to follow up his high-toned Ian McEwan adaptation Atonement (2007) with an action thriller about a teenage killing machine.
Saoirse Ronan plays the title character, brought up in the Finnish wilderness by her father Erik (Eric Bana), who instructs her in languages and combat tactics until the time comes for her to venture out on her own.
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Briefly, she's captured by a CIA team headed by the enigmatic but evil Marissa (Cate Blanchett). After escaping, she starts a journey across the continent to meet Erik in Berlin.The film's intentions remain ill-defined. Presumably, Wright wants us to get an amoral thrill from the collision of childhood innocence and gaudy violence, but he also wants us to sympathise with his ruthless yet vulnerable heroine.
Hanna remains far too thin and silly to succeed as an art film. At best, it's a pompous B-movie with a few good chase scenes.
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