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It's a oft-done story: the "special" person being hunted, but this implementation is lazy and self-conscious; trying to be hip and edgy but looking amateurish. Gaps, inconsistencies and contradictions everywhere. I've never done a film review before but I was so annoyed, having paid for this on cable, I felt compelled.

Apart from the story, which was illogical and trite, Cate Blanchett, who played a central character, was more wooden than a dugout canoe. And what the hell was that accent supposed to be?

The music didn't work at all, but maybe there was a point: to take your mind off the plot, which made even the most strenuous attempts at "suspension of disbelief" impossible.

Editing was competent, but really they didn't have much to work with.

At first I was hooked. Great opener, intriguing story line and a good cast! This movie went downhill fast though. Tons of loose ends that never got tied up. I thought the back story was the most interesting part of the movie and it was never really developed. It was kind of like a machine with tons of working parts but no forward movement. It was a movie a la Quentin Tarantino but without the brains. I'm typically not a fan of Tarantino though and hated Kill Bill...so there you go. Wish I had known this movie's style before going. If you hate Kill Bill (and others like it) you will probably hate Hanna too. Sad waste of our $20 bucks and a $30,000,000 budget. Sorry Eric Bana and Cate Blanchette-I really wanted to love it!

I want my money back--with punitive damages for insulting my intelligence.

Let's start with what seems to be the premise: An ex-CIA agent raises his daughter to be an expert assassin.

Mr. Master-Killer raises his daughter in the remote wilderness of Finland, and, while we see he spends a great deal of time instructing her on the fine-points of deception, killing, general mayhem, blue whales and supernovae, (the latter two *so* important in the everyday workings of espionage and assassination. Great for a well-rounded education, though), it never seems to have occurred to this so-called super-spy that she may need to actually *experience* civilization: At one point we see the girl marveling at a fluorescent light--to the amazement of an innkeeper. Hanna mentions to said innkeeper how she believes electricity was *invented* by Thomas Edison. Huh? What?

So much for a well-rounded education.

Hanna doesn't know civilization, people, conversation, propriety--anything, really, beyond killing efficiently and without mercy.

While Saoirse Ronan is superb in her role as an innocent(?) miscreant, Cate Blanchet--an otherwise unique and dynamic actress--struggles with the character she portrays, and one can only wonder what evil stroke of nature forced her to take the role. Eric Bana is his usual, banal self, and--much like his appearance in Star Trek--could have phoned in his boring, lackluster performance.

This travesty was scripted by two writers having almost no credits between them: Seth Lochhead and David Farr. Having suffered through this disgrace, I can only conclude that they must live in their respective Mommys' basements and really, really, desperately need to get out more. At the very least, they need to start reading. Anything. Anything at all--which they clearly don't. The writers show little knowledge of the world as you and I know it, and are absolutely clueless as to the workings, intrigues and procedures of the intelligence community. They are equally clueless as to what make a good script.

As, apparently, are the producers.

The writing is abhorrent; the film-work, competent though visually dismal; the premise, fascinating; the execution of the premise, awful.

And--the least annoying thing in a film chock full of annoying things, but indicative of the film's total disregard for reality, (and the intelligence of the audience)--why couldn't they even get the CIA's logo right?

My advice: Spend your time watching something better thought-out, researched, written, and far more cerebral.

The Three Stooges comes to mind.

Do not believe the hype about this movie. It is just a load of pretentious cack. In "Atonement", I thought Joe Wright did a remarkable job, with some striking directorial flourishes such as the famous Dunkirk tracking shot, but all in the service of the story, embellishing and enriching it. In this too-wannabe-cool-for-its-own-good "film" (if you can call it that, because it feels rather like a two-hour music video), however, the effect is the exact opposite: every scene, every frame even, is overloaded with capricious extravagances, in what looks like a desperate attempt to mask how hopelessly formulaic and one-note the plot actually is, making it nigh impossible for the viewer not to be jolted right out of the narrative at every turn by the avalanche of distractions. Even Ronan, who has received so much praise, felt miscast to me, too lithe and ethereal to be believable for even one second in her role. But the worst sin, probably, is that after all the hullabaloo, it all boils down to an unbelievably weak and forgettable ending.

I hope you are reading this review before you make the decision to see this movie - and you DON'T ! I've got to write this review because I'm so angry that this movie wasted my time and money.

Hanna is FULL of so many stupid plot holes and ridiculous impossible acts that it is a farce - and the producers of this trash are just laughing at the audience - all the way to the bank.

There are literally several dozen points in the movie where you are snapped out of enjoying the show because nothing like that could ever happen in real life. No character would do what the actors in this movie did.

The absurdity of so much of the "action" in this movie made me check the history of the screenplay's writers - and one has never written anything else, and the other has only written ONE other TV show.

And that should be some warning to you. It will certainly be something I will consider when I research the next film I'm trying to decide about - and whether it is worth spending my time watching.

I can't even find the words to describe how angry the plot holes in this movie make me. This movie is a joke.

And if you are reading this review after turning off this pukefest and you are wondering if you are the only person who feels ripped off - you are not.

This is NOT a movie about a young rogue agent on a mission in Europe! Also, it's NOT an action movie, also it's NOT entertaining.

It's a road movie about a young girl traveling the world. And the editing is annoying AF, like half the time it's part music video style editing (that'll make you vomit, if you're lucky) other half is like an art movie with some nice shots, but they totally irrelevant to the story.

Hanna is supposedly being hunted by CIA, but they're never really close to catching her, so there's an acute lack of action in this movie.

Seriously, I don't even want to waste more time of my life writing a too long review of this stinker of a movie.

If you want to be entertained, I strongly urge you to look elsewhere, this ain't worth your time.

Such good actors, but wow what a waste of my time. I cant belive that its rated 6.8

I don't now what the storyline is trying to say. Many points are left open. Many people we don't know what they have been killed or if they are killed or no (just disappear from the film and you can imagine what happened to them).

The rating is misleading so think again.

First thing first...Joe Wright needs to learn what screen direction is....wholly crap but it was annoying to watch the scene with the two girls in the tent both facing the same direction and in the same position. A 1st year film student learns screen direction the first day in class...where was Wright that day? This film had such potential but did not come close to fulfilling it's objective. The acting was fine but the story, camera work and lack of plot lines lost me not far into the film. Sad really...it could have gone somewhere. Why all the spinning camera shots...it was distracting and did not add to the film in any way. Oh...and I hated the music.

If you're a fan of formulaic films AND you don't mind a thin plot you might enjoy this. All of the actors turn in good performances but it just doesn't compensate for an insipid script: young girl raised in the wilderness to be the perfect assassin rebels against her masters.

If you took out all of the running scenes in the film you'd be left with 20 minutes of bad dialog and atrocious sets: Why are the bad guys holding their hostages in shipping containers in a port? Because the DP thought it would make for an interesting visual (it doesn't). Multiple scenes in which a 95 pound girl holds her own in hand-to-hand combat with grown men who outweigh her by 100 pounds more than stretches credibility, it's just silliness repeated ad naseum.

Films like this can overcome their more obvious problems (lack of realism and credibility) if they're entertaining and don't ask the viewer to take them seriously. Hanna doesn't.

One of the more disappointing films I've seen this year.

Alot of pointless and mostly confusing jumping back an forth in time. Cramped efforts to be artistic. A total waste of time.

How frustrating . It started out so mysteriously good with much suspense and many smart questions to keep the viewers guessing what's going to happen next like who they are and why they have to hide from the world. why did kate blanchett wants the girl dead. And why Eric Bana and Soiarse Ronan have to meet in Leipzig. ALL the questions from the beginning of the movie are left UNANSWERED. It ended with just some shooting and struggling. The End. Now that's a very frustrating movie.

2 points for the snow scenes in the beginning.

I saw the rating and finally watch the movie. Good opening made me so much hope. Yet this movie delivered dumb plot, dump filmography. Totally a waste of time. Felt so dissapointed.

Another version of the super soldier genre. Too many British actors with terrible American accents. The eponymous heroine of the film is a likable character but her fighting skills are almost too good to be believable. Eric Bana is good as Hanna's father and trainer but the bad guys are almost ridiculous in their evil, especially the thugs. The location shots are quite nice, especially at the beginning of the film when we see Hanna learning her ninja skills in the Arctic. The cinematography is quite good particularly the nature shots. Once Hanna relocates to the city, Berlin in this case, it's clear that she has left the Eden of the north and entered a world dominated by nefarious forces. It's trite and hardly original.

It has been some time since I watched this movie but I remember it was filled with action and gore, which made the movie unwatchable from my perspective. I understand why people would watch this but I will not watch it again in the future. No way.

Some people may watch this because it has Saoirse Ronan as the protagonist (Hannah), raised in northern Finland's wilderness by her father, an ex-CIA operative, while a CIA agent (played by Cate Blanchett) tries to track her down and eliminate her, along with her father. You could even say that this film had good performances from Ronan and Blanchett along with exciting action sequences and relevant themes. Even if you said all that, I would still say this film, is not, on the whole, very strong and as such deserves a rating of 2 of out 10.

With that, my review of this film comes to a close.