I recently, with my friends, went to the theatre to see Hanna, a film about a 16 year old assassin trained by her father in the forests of the arctic circle. As I watched the movie, I thought it was a decent film- for within the first thirty mintutes, I was satisfied with the plot. It started downhill from there.
==The Rest of this review may contain spoilers==
The father and her daughter (obviously Hanna) are fugitives from the "law", living in the arctic circle until the daughter is ready to face her enemy. The enemy- a woman who had killed the wife and attempted to kill Hanna and her father after she had shut down a rogue project and needed to kill all involved. The two escaped.
Now, to reengage their enemy, Hanna is instructed by her father to press the button of a homing beacon to alert their enemy as to their position. She does so and is promptly taken prisoner by armed forces, her father having escaped.
In the facility, she asks to talk to the woman who killed her father. She gets, instead, a look alike decoy, at which point Hanna snaps her neck and escapes, after a cliche and badly made scooby doo-esque chase scene between her and armed guards.
The plot holes don't end there. The next part of her plan is to meet her father in Berlin- so the father swims accross an entire body of water and Hanna emerges from the detention facility in a massive desert. After she wanders, she finds a british family on vacation- and discovers she is in Morocco. (YES, MOROCCO OF ALL PLACES). She follows and uses the family to get to europe and gets all the way to Germany. But OH WAIT. She told, against her instructions, the family where she was going. The bad-guys find the family and retireve this information, finding where she was going.
Later, in the final part, one of the main evil-doers takes a iron pipe and drills the Father in the back with it. It does nothing, the father takes the pipe, and kills him. The woman comes and kills him. So after all this, some dumb woman who can barely wield a gun kills a specially trained man, just like that. When she gets to Hanna, she pretends to want to help her, not folling Hanna; Hanna turns to wlak away, and, using an arrow found on the body of her friend they had also killed, uses her little string bracelet to fire it at the woman as the woman shoots her. Obviously the little bracelet is powerful enough to propel an arrow accuratly and with enough velocity to kill someone.
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The above described plot discrepecies and bad scenes only scratches the surface. This would be a movie you could rent and not TOTALLY waste your money, but it isn't worth seeing in theatres. It was a decent plot, a decent cast, but a bad execution. It seems like alot of the movie could have been cut out and it would have accomplished just as much. A decent film overall, but definetly not my favorite.
