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Hanna
Directed by
Joe Wright
Produced by Marty Adelstein, Leslie Holleran, and Scott Nemes
Screenplay by Seth Lochhead and David Farr Story by Seth Lochhead
Produced by Marty Adelstein, Leslie Holleran, and Scott Nemes
Screenplay by Seth Lochhead and David Farr Story by Seth Lochhead
With:
Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana, Cate Blanchett, Jessica Barden, Tom Hollander, Olivia Williams, Jason Flemyng, Michelle Dockery, and Martin Wuttke
Cinematography:
Alwin H. Küchler
Editing: Paul Tothill
Music: Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons
Editing: Paul Tothill
Music: Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons
Runtime:
111 min
Release Date: 08 April 2011
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
Color: Color
Release Date: 08 April 2011
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
Color: Color
From Joe Wright (Atonement, Pride and Prejudice) comes this fairy-tale cum action thriller about a female teenage assassin. Saoirse Ronan is the star and best aspect of the movie. She makes you care about this child raised to be a killer far more than you probably would with a lesser actress. Wright is no Luc Besson, and his film is neither a super-fun entertainment nor a deep mediation on anything, but it does have a lot of good sequences--and I’m not just talking fight scenes or action set-pieces. In fact, Hanna is best in its quiet moments. If the film built to a more satisfying conclusion, it might have been a better “good” movie.