Virag's Movie Reviews: Hanna (2011)

Hanna was the sort of movie that I almost like a bunch.  There was some cool shit in it; Saoirse Ronan is a hell of young actor, and the normally unwatchable Eric Bana was surprisingly watchable in this.  What kind of cheesed me off was the fact that just about everything in the film could have, and should have, been better.  The goofy, derivative fairy tale elements should have been completely scrubbed from the script once the filmmakers got the vibe; the hackneyed symbolic shit was just sad.  The screenplay needed a major rewrite, and the original scribe probably would not have been up to that.  The scifi possibilities of the story should have been explored, along with the action.  I would think I was the last one to ever say something like this, but more Eric Bana in a more obvious parallel of actions scenes between the father and his adopted daughter would have been cool.  Seriously, if the script had been revised by someone who was a fuck of a lot more talented and imaginative, and the director had been able to bring a better sense of the fictional world in the film, this could have been really fucking neat.  Ronan was excellent; Bana was excellent; Cate Blanchett didn't have nearly enough to do, and some of the action was tantalizing.  Damn, this coulda been a contender.