Hanna

First go watch the trailer , now you pretty much know what the film is about and I don't need to recap. See, we call that division of labor around here. In general the film opens strong, moves along reasonably well, and then kind of peters out at the end (kind of like your...never mind I'll restrain myself). Its reasonably entertaining, and as I've said before I always enjoy seeing kids beating up adults (or getting beaten up by adults I'm not picky, I just like intergenerational warfare). The action does get a bit repetitive, and when the film tries to interject some humanity by having Hanna interact with a 'colorful' family it doesn't really go anywhere. Indeed they just sort of disappear without any real resolution so the film probably would have been better off not even introducing them. Still thats a minor point, and generally the film is entertaining in a 'don't think too hard about the logic' kind of way.

All that said, there is a fundamental flaw in the set up that keeps me from getting wholly invested with whats going down. Basically the whole premise of the film is that Cate Blanchett's character has been hunting Hanna and her father for 16 years and will stop at the nothing to stop them. As a result Hanna has to go and take down approximately 5000 government operatives and assorted hit men in order to have a chance at peace. The problem is that the way Blanchett plays the character is more exasperated than driven. She seems generally annoyed when she gets the signal that Hanna's father is still alive, not because that she wished they were dead, but because now she has to deal with it. Really you get the feeling that if Hanna's father had just kept his head down and moved to, say, Fontana, Blanchett would have been completely fine never dealing with them again and hundreds of expendable crewman could of avoided death at the hands of a borderline psychotic teenager. As a result I never really bought that anything that happened was necessary, and felt that the father was just a paranoid sociopath who could have given his daughter a normal life if he wasn't so consumed with getting revenge. Of course that's how I roll most Thursdays so who am I to judge.