Hanna (2011)
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 211
Fresh: 151 | Rotten: 60
Fantastic acting and crisply choreographed action sequences propel this unique, cool take on the revenge thriller.
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 43
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 17
Fantastic acting and crisply choreographed action sequences propel this unique, cool take on the revenge thriller.
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Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) is 16 years old. She is bright, inquisitive, and a devoted daughter. Uniquely, she has the strength, the stamina, and the smarts of a soldier; these come from being raised by her widowed father Erik (Eric Bana), an ex-CIA man, in the wilds of North Finland. Erik has taught Hanna to hunt, put her through extreme self-defense workouts, and home-schooled her with only an encyclopedia and a book of fairy tales. Hanna has been living a life unlike any other teenager; her
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Cast
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Saoirse Ronan
Hanna -
Eric Bana
Erik -
Tom Hollander
Isaacs -
Olivia Williams
Rachel -
Jason Flemyng
Sebastian -
Jessica Barden
Sophie -
Cate Blanchett
Marissa -
Jamie Beamish
Burton -
Vicky Kreips
Johanna Zadeck -
Paris Arrowsmith
CIA Tech 1 -
John Macmillan
Lewis -
Tim Beckmann
Walt -
Paul Birchard
Bob -
Christian Malcolm
Head of Ops -
Tom Hodgkins
Monitor -
Vincent Montuel
Camp G Doctor 1 -
Nathan Nolan
Camp G Doctor 2 -
Michelle Dockery
False Marissa -
Aldo Maland
Miles -
Mohammed Majd
Moroccan Hotel Owner -
Sebastian Hülk
Titch -
Joel Basman
Razor -
Matthias Brandt
Danish Policeman -
Álvaro Cervantes
Feliciano -
Marc Soto
Feliciano's Brother -
Gudrun Ritter
Katrin Zadeck -
Martin Wuttke
Knepfler
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All Critics (211) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (151) | Rotten (60) | DVD (10)
While the film as a whole may be episodic and wayward, and not always in a good way, the action scenes are uniformly sharp, inventive and gripping.
Top CriticAn entertainingly nutty action thriller from the director Joe Wright.
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.
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.
This film is bound to give the home-schooling movement a bad name, unless, of course, you're running a home school for assassins.
"Hanna" plays out as a visceral fairy tale about a naif discovering a world both fascinating and dangerous.
not terrible, but not great
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.
Jason Bourne meets Run Lola Run in a movie that brings terrifying new meaning to 'child abuse'.
"A furious neck-snapping thriller that summons up memories of a dozen other movies and manages to improve on most of them."
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.
For a film that is supposed to be a thriller, the thrills are few and far in between. What "Hanna" really ends up being is a missed opportunity.
Having already long proven her acting chops, Ronan shows a bright future as a bona fide movie star.
While the plot has some minor flaws, the incredible performances, characters, soundtrack and action beats of Hanna more than make up for it.
The ingredients are there for success, but as we build toward resolution (or even increased conflict) Hanna fails to develop at a rate to match the sum of its parts.
Sometimes a gritty, unpolished, and decidedly European-style thriller is exactly what you're looking for.
As a thriller, this strange, at times hypnotic, fable about a damaged little girl severely disappoints.
A sour, empty graphic novel of an escapade from the man who once helmed 'Atonement,' 'Hanna' gets intensely more godawful as it approaches its climax.
'Hanna,' 'Salt' and 'Colombiana' should all merge together for a sequel.
[Joe] Wright is a natural successor to the late Anthony Minghella, able to deftly mix visual panache with small-scale emotion.
This cool, calculated who's-hunting-who piece brings home all the requisite tension, gunplay and fighting with a great deal of cinematic style.
Joe Wright leaves behind everything he has previously done. He seems hardened and full of fury, perhaps a response at the unfair way his The Soloist (2009) was received. Hanna is stripped-down, fast, and fantastic.
...most of the time Wright simply throws everything he can think of at the screen like the promo director he used to be. Great soundtrack, though.
A flashy but disposable exercise in style over substance... [Blu-ray]
Hanna is a perfect example of visual filmmaking elevating a substandard story.
A kinetic action thriller of high quality, Hanna is as visually strong as it is emotionally engrossing, thanks to strong central performances and a welcome change of pace from director Joe Wright.
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- Isaacs: I like giving people what they want.
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- Rachel: I love the countryside. The city stifles me. Emotionally. Creatively. Spiritually. Places like this bring us closer to god.
- Rachel: Well, not in any monotheistic sense. Buddha, Krishna, the 'God Within'. Whatever you believe in. What do you believe in, Hanna?
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- Sophie: Is 'kraut' an ethnic slur? Like 'queer' or 'lesbo'? I think I'd quite like to be a lesbian.
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- Hanna: Come and find me.
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- Moroccan Hotel Owner: Where do you come from?
- Hanna: The forest.
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- Sebastian: So Hanna, is your mum and Dad still together?
- Hanna: My mother is dead.
- Sophie: [to Sebastian] Nice one, Dad.
- Sebastian: I'm sorry to hear that. I lost my mum when I was very young, so...
- Hanna: It's all right. It happened a long time ago.
- Rachel: Hanna, what did your mum die of?
- Hanna: Three bullets.
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