Sunday, March 4, 2012

Hanna (2011, directed by Joe Wright)

- the main flaw in this movie was already addressed in the movie.  Eric trains Hanna for 15 years or so to assassinate a woman but Hanna doesn't have a sure-fire way of verifying the identity of that woman.  Granted Hanna asked her, Marissa (the target), a few questions.  However, as we saw, that wasn't good enough.  Hanna killed the wrong woman.

- to raise a kid in isolation for 15 years and then expect her to get captured then taken to a secret location, perform an assassination, escape, and then make it to Berlin is ridiculous.  And this kid, even though she's skilled in hunting and escape & evasion, she hasn't seen a light and a lightswitch, a television, or an airplane before in her life.  When she broke into her "grandmother's" house, she broke the window, reached in and unturned the latch.  How did she know to do this?

- why didn't Eric pick up the gun from the fight in the subway station?  He could've used it later on.  Also regarding firearms... Eric trains Hanna to use a pistol while in the arctic.  But just because you become good at one type of pistol doesn't mean you'll be automatically good at every type of pistol you come across.  Each pistol type has different characteristics (different barrel lengths, different mechanics inside, different trigger pulls) and even ammunition of the same calibre can have different characteristics (different bullet weight, powder grains). 

It was an OK movie.  I still wouldn't pay to watch it though.

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