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Hanna is one of those movies that I find personally frustrating. It wasn't bad, per se, but it wasn't good either. It's just sort of there.
Basically, the movie is a series of long chase scenes featuring the ethereal Saoirse Ronan, as she ventures from her sheltered upbringing in the forest, looking for revenge on the people who killed her mother and would like to kill her. Along the way she is exposed to things that she's never been exposed to before.
Like music.
And electricity.
Yeah. You read that right. During her entire 14 years, she has never heard a song.
Shit like that is what kills this movie for me, more than the unsatisfying ending or a teenage girl able to escape from a military facility staffed by professional soldiers.
Yeah.
Perhaps I'm missing something. Perhaps the writer & director of the movie were trying to make more of a character piece than an adventure? For that matter, perhaps they were trying to make a black comedy. Honestly, I have no idea.
What they did produce, sadly, was an empty, husk of a film that is immanently forgettable.
That's why, on the Melworks Scale of Movie Love, I have to give Hanna, a one. This movie is pretty much a waste of your time. I wouldn't see it in the theater again, I wouldn't rent it on DVD or Pay-Per-View and I wouldn't go out of my way to watch it on television. However, if it happened to be on at one in the morning on TNT or USA, and I didn't feel like getting off the couch, it might be acceptable viewing.
Basically, the movie is a series of long chase scenes featuring the ethereal Saoirse Ronan, as she ventures from her sheltered upbringing in the forest, looking for revenge on the people who killed her mother and would like to kill her. Along the way she is exposed to things that she's never been exposed to before.
Like music.
And electricity.
Yeah. You read that right. During her entire 14 years, she has never heard a song.
Shit like that is what kills this movie for me, more than the unsatisfying ending or a teenage girl able to escape from a military facility staffed by professional soldiers.
Yeah.
Perhaps I'm missing something. Perhaps the writer & director of the movie were trying to make more of a character piece than an adventure? For that matter, perhaps they were trying to make a black comedy. Honestly, I have no idea.
What they did produce, sadly, was an empty, husk of a film that is immanently forgettable.
That's why, on the Melworks Scale of Movie Love, I have to give Hanna, a one. This movie is pretty much a waste of your time. I wouldn't see it in the theater again, I wouldn't rent it on DVD or Pay-Per-View and I wouldn't go out of my way to watch it on television. However, if it happened to be on at one in the morning on TNT or USA, and I didn't feel like getting off the couch, it might be acceptable viewing.
