Rating of
2.5/4
More than just an action movie!
MovieAddict - wrote on 02/23/12
Brought up in a breathtaking perpetual winter wonderland by her father (Eric Bana), 16 year old Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) is a tough, quick, intelligent child taught how to survive and fend for herself well versed in everything from languages to hunting animals using a bow and arrow. She is trained by her father into being a cold-blooded assassin for a mission and a destiny we would soon find out.
After seeing a plane fly overhead Hanna desire to see the world cannot be contained and Erik, realizing the time has come for Hanna to leave the nest shows Hanna a signaling device. After they activate a homing beacon, US marines flock to their house where they can locate only Hanna. They take her in for questioning to a top secret base in order to discover the whereabouts of her father but find that Hanna will only speak to Marissa Wiegler (Cate Blanchett) the head of the operations who she knows by name.
The movie follows her story as she then flees the scene in order to reunite with her father. She finds herself in a desert, which turns out to be in Morocco. There, she meets a vacationing British family of four, and is befriended by the teenage girl Sophie (Jessica Barden) and her pre-teen brother. All the while she is being tracked down by the warped and slightly crazed Isaacs (Tom Hollander).
A great coming-of-age story with a protagonist who on the one hand can be a cold-blooded killer and on the other is a sheltered innocent seeing the world for the first time with childlike wonder.
