Hanna

Hanna

Rating 2 out of 10

A couple times a year I will see a movie that is totally dreadful and yet the critics give it wonderful reviews like it's the movie of the year.  I wonder if I saw the same film they did.  Hanna is that movie.  The previews looked like a good edge of your seat action movie.  Instead you get a very dull art house film with just enough action to fill a 30 second clip.

The movie starts interesting.  A teenage girl is somewhere in the arctic with her father (played by the always good Eric Bana) who is training her like a Navy Seal.  Teaching her to hunt, fight and survive.  Then everything goes downhill.  For some mostly unexplained reason they flip a button letting the bad guys know where they are.  Dad then hits the road leaving Hanna there to be captured.  She must be captured so she can show off her fighting skills in escaping from the fortress in Morocco. I guess a blonde white girl in an orange prison jumpsuit is a common thing in the nearby city as she walks around the city freely.  She takes in a local concert and we get to enjoy ten full minutes of singing from someone I'm sure is a rock star in Morocco.

You get the point.  The movie is a mess.  For having so many good actors (Saoirse Ronan was nominated for an Oscar from the movie The Lovely Bones that no one saw.  Cate Blanchett seems to be nominated every year) the acting is bad. The director is like a kid with a new toy.  Every fight scene we get blasted with some bad rock music.  Some shots he zooms in close then flips the camera upside down where the actors are on the ceiling.

Save your money folks.  Don't even rent this one.