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Hanna

This was a weird movie…it had some good thriller elements, yet they never gelled together to create any thrills. Some of this was clearly due to the director- parts were over-stylized and characters like Cate Blanchett’s were cartoonish. This movie would have had a much better chance at succeeding in the realistic style of the Bourne movies. As for the script…

Character

While I liked the training with Eric Bana and his daughter, the remote location was too much. Things like never having heard music made Hanna into a kind of freak instead of someone I should have been curious about and rooted for.

Structure/Plot and Objective

It was clear that Hanna started the adventure with the need to kill Cate. But the movie made it seem like getting to the Grimm house in Berlin was the means to do so and that never made sense. The father and daughter planned from the beginning to meet there, but why? The whole movie felt off in that Hanna sought to kill Cate, thought she succeeded in that early sequence with the imposter, and then kept running from pursuers. It would have been a lot smoother had she realized the imposter was not Cate.

Overall, the story would have been a lot more interesting had Hanna run away from her father to learn the truth about herself, then got mixed up with Cate, and all the while her father was trying to find her.

Logic

About the backstory- considering the CIA project to develop a super soldier was successful, why did they shut it down? Usually secret operations are shut down when they fail and there are consequences to that.

Little thing

What was that location-finding device in the beginning? Why did Eric have such a thing?

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