Do not go to see this movie if you want your action movies to be extra explosions and fights with a small side helping of plot. Hanna is a movie that is big on story and characterization. It has fantastic fight scenes and completely moved by these great actors and the fantastic music. There may be minor problems and I could list them all, but I am not here to knit-pick. This is a great film, but a person can only enjoy it if they go into it expecting a few slow moments.
The script and the acting is humorous and exciting and thrilling. Each actor plays very well from each role that they are given, especially Saoirse Ronan and Cate Blanchette. Cate is wonderfully devilish and Ronan brings every ounce of her acting ability into this role. She will definitely be one of the greatest actresses of all time in a few more years. And Eric Bana is good as always. Though Cate is such a scary woman who you do not want to be on the wrong end of in a conversation, it is Tom Hollander, as the insane Isaacs, who steals this film. It is difficult to steal the movie away from these three actors. I don’t know if it’s the hair, the polo shirt, or that smile, but he creeps on a scale that can make grown men slither in their seats. He doesn’t do much in the film and in fact never does much fighting; it is his presence in the film is all we need.
The action is great. The fights scenes in the film are well choreographed and look stunning. Some might complain that there is too little which brings me back to my point that this may be an action movie but it is more than that. The film entertains but still makes the viewers think.
And the music moves the film. The movie couldn’t have worked as well without The Chemical Brothers. It would have seemed to me a rip off of a David Fincher film without this score. Although the cinematography looked really cool and the lighting added a fantastic tone to the film, it had the pacing of a Fincher film and it would have emphasized it more without the score. The score made the movement of the film necessary. And the whistling theme of Isaacs churned my blood.
A great movie all around. It has its problems like most movies, but I recommend it very highly.
Next time: Jurassic Park Trilogy and Tony Gilroy’s Michael Clayton and Duplicity
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