A marked difference from his prior entry of Atonement, Joe Wright's new entry, titled Hanna stars the same actress sixteen year old Saorise Ronan. Her name signifies freedom in the Irish language and is quite fitting for the entry Hanna because she is always racing across the screen.
The well toned, blue-eyed beauty, fresh from months and months of preparation both in martial arts techniques and diet in order to develop into a young woman with superhuman strengths. She is an example of female empowerment given her ability to toss around groups of men onto their butts and with bow and arrow dispatch a reindeer in the Northern Finland frigid wilderness.
Making up for lacking in both clear motivation and character development this is pure a movie action packed super thriller that features heavy duty action scenes, one after another. Seth Lochhead wrote both story and screenplay at the young age of 24 when he was a film student and the script has now been adapted to the big screen by Joe Wright, noted for delicate dramas such as Pride and Prejudice and The Soloist.
The Chemical Brothers provide an incredible soundtrack and there is energy pulsating throughout the movie. Classical gypsy flamenco to contemporary techno is featured in the soundtrack. The supporting cast gives great performances Olivia Willams, Tom Hollander, Cate Blanchett, Jessica Barden of Tamara Drewe fame and a very special performance by Eric Bana.
The fight scenes look like choreographed dance containing considerable amounts of violence that looks realistic but in some places with too quick editing thus making Hanna not a good example when trying to convince friends that movies are not theatre.
Ronan was raised since an early age and home schooled in Ireland after being born in New York and acts in the title role as a kid that is home schooled that includes lessons given to her from her dad like memorizing the encyclopaedia, learning Arabic, Spanish, English and Italian and taking in all there is to know about the wonders of Grimm's Fairy Tales.
A rundown German amusement park is transformed into a fairy-tale adventure land by production designer Sarah Greenwood making it even better for the Wicked Witch of the West Cate Blanchett's character Marissa. Filming by Alwin Kuchler is done in 100 degree heat in the south of Morocco, in the sub zero cold of the Northern Finland wilderness and places around Europe like Berlin, Hamburg, Bavaria and the UK.
Ronan's character opens the film with exuberant energy receiving the martial arts self defence schooling in Finland without having normal interaction with other kids that are her age and has never heard music making it easy to understand her desire to leave dad and see what is in the outside world.
When she departs she sees things that both enrapture and put fear in her. She is taken in by a travelling family and makes friends with Jessica Barden's character Sophie. What comes out is she is a complex person; a killing machine and heroine wrapped in one.
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