I entered the theater thinking that in the worst case, it would be a good action flick and in the best case, something truly original and memorable. It was an average action flick and neither original nor memorable.
This film takes a tired sci fi premise, the human with unusual abilities from a science experiment, and tries to make it original by making the main character a teenage girl. It isn't enough. The movie is basically a chase scene. Hanna is on the run to confront and presumably kill the CIA bigwig who started, then terminated the science experiment. The scenes of CIA skullduggery are laughable, less believable even than "Salt." There are a few moments of humor and the visuals are interesting. There's a detour of sorts in the plot when Hanna befriends a family on vacation. This is the most interesting part of the movie. Then the film reverts to the chase scene that is its plot line. I thought that the ending might be some sort of surprise or revelation, but there was none. I had the impression the screenwriters might have thought they wrote a funny or ironic ending, but they did not--it just fell flat. I will say I enjoyed looking at Eric Bana in wet underwear, and the Grimm's Fairy Tales theme park was intriguing as a set for some of the final confrontations.
This film takes a tired sci fi premise, the human with unusual abilities from a science experiment, and tries to make it original by making the main character a teenage girl. It isn't enough. The movie is basically a chase scene. Hanna is on the run to confront and presumably kill the CIA bigwig who started, then terminated the science experiment. The scenes of CIA skullduggery are laughable, less believable even than "Salt." There are a few moments of humor and the visuals are interesting. There's a detour of sorts in the plot when Hanna befriends a family on vacation. This is the most interesting part of the movie. Then the film reverts to the chase scene that is its plot line. I thought that the ending might be some sort of surprise or revelation, but there was none. I had the impression the screenwriters might have thought they wrote a funny or ironic ending, but they did not--it just fell flat. I will say I enjoyed looking at Eric Bana in wet underwear, and the Grimm's Fairy Tales theme park was intriguing as a set for some of the final confrontations.