Hanna - a bizarre but very entertaining movie, it really has the feel of a whacky late 60s movie meets a modern action thriller. So - yes - it can be a bit silly but it's fun... Some great camera work and the Chemical Brothers soundtrack is perfect. Just leave your critical brain at home and you'll come out with a grin on your face. (If you liked Atonement then this is probably not for you. Knocks the socks off that overrated melodramatic tosh, which the British public lap up. Sigh....)
Hanna is a serious misfire from Joe Wright, suggesting that he had better stick to literary adaptations. Seth Lochhead’s lame story and cloth-eared script have to take most of the blame, but the film’s ghastly performances (bar Ronan) and wildly inconsistent tone must be laid on the director.
Crucially, the film seems to have no idea who its audience is. A violent assassination thriller for adults which just happens to have a young protagonist (cf. Leon)? Or an aspirational fantasy for tween girls, with a bit of cute romance and knockabout comedy? The 12A certificate sums up everything that is compromised and indecisive about it.
Some of the scenes – especially those involving a ‘wacky’ family that Hanna tags along with, and Tom Hollander as a leisureweared psychopath – are just excruciating. Avoid.