[Closed] Hanna

Top notch film.

Meh. It wasn't the 'modern day Leon' I was hoping for.

Yeah, I thought it was a bit mediocre as well. Between Eric Bana and Saoirse Roman's mighty dodgy German accents, the annoying British kid, and the bloke from The Thick of It playing a camp German assassin it kind of lost me a bit. Wasn't atrocious, but was expecting/hoping for quite a bit better.

I really like it, one of few films that I don't bored of watching.

Watch-able enough but pretty mediocre I thought...

I was strangely disappointed.

Glad I didn't watch it on acid though...

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Literally the worst film I have ever seen.

Acting was just non existent. There was this massive gaping black hole where the plot should be.

None of it made any sense. Literally every scene I was like "well that's just ridiculous".

And it was also mind numbingly boring.

Least enjoyable film I've ever watched. However it does come with a cool drinking game: drink every time it sucks (but have someone to put you in the recovery position/pump your stomach at the end).

I've got the Chemical Brothers soundtrack, which is good. Will visit Tesco at lunchtime 🙂

I think it's one of those films where your expectations are important.

I rented it without knowing anything about it and loved it.
Then I started recommending it to others and they didn't think that much of it. They were expecting more.

Similar with Troll Hunter. I didn't know what to expect and thought it was brilliant, then over-sold it to friends who were 'meh'.

I really enjoyed Troll Hunter!

Great, great film. Nothing mega complicated, just a brilliant film to sit down and watch.

+1 for Troll Hunter - not usually a fan of the found footage type films but it actually came across really well - almost believable! Apparently it was mostly improvised as well I think?

I thought it was a rather good bit of nonsense viewing - I freely admit there is so many holes in the plot it resembles a length of chicken wire but for fast paced action with a killer soundtrack and genuinely psychotic moments it ticks all the boxes for me - the section in the container park is quite unsettling especially with Tom Hollanders character whistling merrily away.

Literally the worst film I have ever seen.

Great, great film. Nothing mega complicated, just a brilliant film to sit down and watch.

I suspect the truth lies somewhere between those 2 rather extreme views.

how can it be the worst film when the spice girls movie exists? unless mr realman you're a 11yr old girl and you love the spice girls enough to see past their terrible acting and general crapness... then i'd go as far to suggest you're wrong.

I didn't hate it but the fact I can't remember it at all makes me think I wasn't that bothered by it in either way. That I watched it all the way through means it can't have been that bad though

how can it be the worst film when the spice girls movie exists? unless mr realman you're a 11yr old girl and you love the spice girls enough to see past their terrible acting and general crapness... then i'd go as far to suggest you're wrong.

I had to google it, but that film came out when I was 5 so I don't think I ever really watched it properly. Although doesn't a double decker bus jump a bridge or something? Far more believable then ANYTHING that happens in Hanna.

I would also rate this above Hanna. If you liked Hanna, then this will probably blow your mind.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0270846/

This film was derivative of many other films including (Soldier, Resident Evil), with little new in the way of plot. The immoral CIA creates a program in which they are attempting to genetically create the perfect soldier by fooling with the DNA of embryos. When the experiment proves successful (huh..? Why shut down a successful program..?) it is decided for unknown reasons to end the project and terminate all those involved. Eric Bana, the CIA field agent who recruited the women for the experiment has a change of heart and tries to save one woman and her child. For no particular reason, except to give Hanna a reason to want revenge later on, the mother is killed by Kate Blanchett, and Eric Bana escapes with the infant. Bana raises Hanna as his own in an "arctic" cabin without electricity or modern conveniences, in order to prepare her for the day that she has to face the CIA and their henchmen. The day finally arrives when Hanna decides that she is ready. Bana digs up a transponder he had buried and places it in front of Hanna quipping that once the switch is flipped it can't be undone. Since there is no electricity in the cabin, and in fact Hanna has never seen an electric light, the method by which Bana got a battery to operate after over 14 years is never explained. Bana leaves Hanna alone to be captured by the dastardly CIA operatives. He did this apparently in order for Hanna to kill Kate Blanchett. Why he doesn't take Hanna with him, instead of leaving her to be taken by the CIA is left unexplained. Hanna is brought to an underground holding cell, the size of the Superbowl, in Morocco.

Strangely, Morocco looks a lot like the desert southwest of the US. Naturally, Hanna is more than a handful for the loutish CIA operatives and manages to escape through the ubiquitous air-conditioning vents which just happen to be her size. She makes her way to the surface, and just as she is looking out of a vast desert vista in broad daylight, Hummvees start driving directly over her head, apparently oblivious to the fact that there is an open submarine door in their path. As the last Hummvee passes the hole is shown as empty clearly showing that Hanna has managed to take hold of the undercarriage of the last vehicle as it passed at 50 mph, where she hangs on similar to Robert De Niro as Max Cady in the 1991 film "Cape Fear". Too bad nobody told the director about this same treatment by the "Simpsons" with Sideshow Bob. I'm sure I'm not the only one surprised by the location of Morocco for this CIA detention cell, instead of somewhere in the US. It becomes obvious later on when Hanna has the opportunity to show off her dexterity with languages, which wouldn't have come up in the US quite so easily. Also, since it was decided by the Director to have the final fight scene in an amusement park in Germany, the CIA detention center had to be someplace from which Hanna could conceivably get to Germany, without a passport or any ID.

At one point in the film Eric Bana picks up a post card at a post office, apparently where they've been holding his mail for the past 14 years, and there's a postcard from Hanna telling him in code she has killed Kate Blanchett, which is unfortunately incorrect. How she bought the stamp, mailed the postcard, or knew which post office Bana would be near is unexplained. The fact that all of this action takes place in a matter of a few days, makes the idea that a post card can get from Morocco or Spain to Germany in that amount of time laughable to anyone who has lived overseas.

There are several editing or continuity errors, like when Hanna kills the reindeer with a bow and arrow, but then guts a reindeer of approximately half the size, and then brings the originally sized reindeer home on a sleigh, apparently having made the sleigh from the raw materials by hand.

The choice of where and when to use blood spatter effects is also interesting. Hanna gets her face splashed when shooting people, and the picture in front of grandma gets covered when Kate Blanchett kills her (again for no reason), but the reindeer is remarkably without blood, even though Hanna is in the process of gutting it.

If you can willingly suspend your disbelief for this film, then you really have no disbelief to suspend.

The story is derivative, the characters are two dimensional and without motivation, the lines are full of clichés, and the violence is unrealistic. Eric Bana is supposed to be the Zen like trainer of Hanna, but he can't seem to handle a Aryan Brotherhood with a knife. I suppose 12 year old girls will like the scene where Hanna flips a Spanish boy who tries to kiss her, but her reactions were closer to that of someone suffering from anti-social personality disorder than of a normal teenager.

The fact that Hanna kills people for little or no reason would seem to suggest that she is in fact meant to be characterized as a serial killer, except that she announces to Eric Bana that she doesn't want to hurt anyone anymore, when all she really needs to do is to stop hurting people.

I found it disconcerting that Eric Bana had spent 14 or so years training Hanna to kill everything that moves, when the CIA was unaware of his or her actual existence. He could just as easily have changed his name and raised Hanna on a ranch in Idaho or a tenement in the South Bronx, but then there wouldn't have been as much of a story, as such.

And much more here

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0993842/reviews

I know! - on a thread about buying a copy for £3 we should post up a mass of spoilers which pretty much tell you the full story of the film. That would be good 😉

I must have missed the memo about all files appealing to everyone.