: Hanna
Director: Joe Wright
I love the concept of the film as a thirteen-year-old girl is raised by a former spy to be the ultimate assassin, but the implementation had some issues for me. First of all, the story’s fairly simple and basic, without a lot of subplot and twists and turns that typically fill this genre. There’s nothing wrong with that and I rather liked it. However, the film is directed in a way that attempts to compensate for that, with certain “in your face” techniques (sharp cuts and edits, dramatic zooms, action camerawork, etc.) that sometimes feels overdone and occasionally actually make it confusing what is happening. This is especially true of the ending, which is supposed to be climatic, but left me scratching my head at what happened. (I didn’t get the business with the arrow and some of the action editing there was really poor.) Fortunately much of the middle of the film is more human moments as we follow the girl trying to get back to father while being hunted by bad guys she doesn’t know are on her tail, and that I enjoyed very much. Not a lot really happens, but it feels like a lot may happen, and that’s entertaining. The performances are great all around. Ultimately I was pleased and I recommend the film, but it falls short of greatness for me. Some of its potential didn’t get realized and I thought the ending needed something extra (it was too predictable and the confusing camerawork and editing didn’t mask the lack of creativity of the conclusion).
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