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Hanna (2011)
In desperate need of an editor...and a credible storyline...and a lot more
This film has some beautiful locations early on, but quickly becomes so pointless and loses credibility very quickly.
While there are some great actors and actresses in this film, they unfortunately have very few lines of dialogue, and also have very few opportunities to show us why they act or feel the way they do.
The film seems to happen for no reason. Sure, Hanna wants to kill the US secret agent Marissa because she killed her mother, but everything else is left largely unanswered. The super-warrior waif I can go along with for a time, but the film ends up becoming ridiculous when Hanna leaps out of a hole in the ground to grab the underside of a Humvee driving overhead. Idiotic.
Then the interaction she has with the English family is a confused mix of light relief and possible self reflection on a life spent in the Arctic wilderness without family fun. We're left wondering what happens to the family after she leaves them and they get found by the baddies.
The baddies that Marissa rely on apart from gray faceless operatives are hard to take seriously. Are they meant to be funny? Skinheads in boots led by a fuhrer in tennis shorts is possibly trying too hard, but apart from a tenuous eugenics connection with Hanna's genetic manipulation, I can't really see why the film-makers did this.
The inconsistencies in the story are infuriating too. Hanna is freaked out by an old black and white TV in Morocco, but somehow uses the Internet to discover the truth about her father and the DNA manipulation carried out on her.
Ultimately the predictable end to the film comes too late and you've had enough.