Cast Saiorse Ronan, Eric Bana, Cate Blanchett, Tom Hollander
Director Joe Wright
Joe Wright once more teams up with his Atonement star, Oscar nominee Saiorse Ronan, to darkly unravel the tale of Hanna (Ronan), a 16-year-old schoolgirl, who, whilst exhibiting all the schoolgirly behaviours of being scholarly, a devoted daughter and eager to learn about the world, also happens to be a crack shot and a trained killer.
With her widower ex-CIA father Erik (Bana) to thank for having drilled her in the art of being the ultimate assassin since she could walk, Hanna has long trained in the beautiful yet harsh wilds of Northern Finland, where pretty soon she has the strength, stamina and diamond-hard mental capacity required to embark on the revenge that dad’s been plotting since she was born. And the object of Erik’s long-distance loathing?
Stony-faced, ice cold CIA operative Marissa (a stunning Blanchett). At times, Wright weaves an almost fairytale-esque twist into this thrilling adventure, fitting really as Hanna is taught by her doting (or deranged?) dad from encyclopedias and the collected works of the Brothers Grimm.
And it’s with a gathering sense of doom, that the something scary lurking in the future may be the sense that there comes a time when a father can no longer control his daughter’s impulses.
Pretty scary thought when you’ve trained her to kill or be killed…
