Hanna

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Hanna

PG-13

Released Apr 8, 2011

1h 51m

Action

Adventure

Mystery & Thriller

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Raised by her father (Eric Bana) in the Finnish wilderness, teenage Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) has trained all her life to be the perfect assassin. Her father sends her on a mission, and she stealthily makes her way across Europe while evading agents sent after her by a ruthless operative named Marissa (Cate Blanchett), who once worked with Hanna's father. As she draws closer to her target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence and begins to question her humanity.

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Critics Consensus

Fantastic acting and crisply choreographed action sequences propel this unique, cool take on the revenge thriller.

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Wendy Ide

Times (UK)

The plot is preposterous, but Joe Wright, the director, gives the movie enough audacious drive and style for the story to skim over the holes in the narrative logic.

Oct 21, 2022

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Alyx Vesey

Bitch Media

Even though there are misogynistic undercurrents to the fatal gunshot wound Hanna delivers... Weigler will never die because she lives on in Hanna, and her story will be retold and revised just like the fables women and girls pass on to one another.

Jan 11, 2021

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Shubhra Gupta

The Indian Express

The thing with Joe Wright's beautifully shot movie is that it never really feels true.

Rated: 2.5/5

Apr 2, 2019

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Michael Leader

Den of Geek

Hanna shows some promise, particularly in Ronan’s versatile performance, but between the overwrought style and underdeveloped script, there’s plenty for Wright to workshop...

Rated: 3/5

May 8, 2024

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

There may not be as much grand meaning or deeply affecting substance when compared to his previous works, but Wright and company have created an exciting story, richly told with copious amounts of style.

Rated: 3.5/4

Jul 31, 2023

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Rene Jordan

El Nuevo Herald (Miami)

Hanna doesn't bore for a single moment, although it's unintelligible for most minutes. [Full review in Spanish]

Oct 6, 2022

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Audience Member

The plot of this fantasy-thriller-action heroine movie is a stretch, but the coming of age story is moving, on-the-road settings beautifully filmed, and the acting is superb. It's not hard to see why (then only 17) Saoirse Ronan has since become a star.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

05/08/25

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Peter B

Comfortably the worst film I have watched in recent years. Redeeming features? Hard to find any. Cate’s hair?

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

04/22/25

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Leaburn O

Stylish assassin film with some good scenes and elements that drag a little. Watched on Netflix.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

04/19/25

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Dave S

Best known for period pieces like Atonement and Pride & Prejudice, Hanna feels like a bit of a departure for director Joe Wright. Raised in isolation by her father (Eric Bana) in a remote area of Finland, Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) has been raised to be a lethal assassin, her purpose in life to kill the woman who murdered her mother. On a journey that takes her from Morocco to Germany, the young girl tries to adapt to a world she doesn’t understand while maintaining focus on her ultimate goal of revenge. While Ronan’s performance is the main reason to watch, it’s also impressive how Wright manages to transition from sedate, deliberately paced drama in his previous efforts to wildly unhinged action set pieces in a thriller that manages to hold the viewer’s attention throughout.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

04/11/25

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Brad S. R

Saorise Ronan is fantastic as always, but I simply couldn't find much of a point to this shoot-em-up action thriller.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

04/07/25

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Jason A

Quirky but not always in a good way. Frustrating and ridiculous at times but no doubt very enjoyable if you can somehow just turn off your brain and not be annoyed by the continuous flow of point to point leaping around and coincidences. The directing tries WAY too hard to be nouveau. Accents aren't great either.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/14/25

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Synopsis

Raised by her father (Eric Bana) in the Finnish wilderness, teenage Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) has trained all her life to be the perfect assassin. Her father sends her on a mission, and she stealthily makes her way across Europe while evading agents sent after her by a ruthless operative named Marissa (Cate Blanchett), who once worked with Hanna's father. As she draws closer to her target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence and begins to question her humanity.

Director: Joe Wright
Producer: Leslie Holleran, Marty Adelstein, Scott Nemes
Screenwriter: Seth Lochhead, David Farr
Distributor: Focus Features
Production Co: Focus Features, Sechzehnte Babelsberg Film, Holleran Company
Rating: PG-13 (Intense Sequences of Violence|Intense Sequences of Action|Language|Some Sexual Material)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 8, 2011, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 12, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $40.2M
Runtime: 1h 51m

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