Hanna

The wild child grew up in the wilderness can be seen impossibly a double pierced ear lobe in a 5-second cheesy head shot.   As much as I want to like the Kool-Aid director Joe Wright dishes out, once I saw that, the suspension of belief crumbles down like a sack of potatoes.  The movie stars two of the fairest female actresses you can find on earth, if they get any whiter, I probably need to wear sun glasses to sit through the movie.  I always like Eric Bana, he's a manly man.  Alas his character is kind of I don't know maybe lame.  Erik, that's right, Eric Bana's character, first potentially significant fight happens off-screen and I am left forever wondering how he disposes of the two (border) policemen.  The look of Hanna (not the character, but the movie), feels oddly like The Bourne movies but just not as good and lacks the obvious kinetic momentum that propels the movie forward or the more subtle but well crafted moral dimensions of the Bourne series (Bourne Supremacy in particular).  The finale is also lame.  So all in all, it's a let down.

As far as young female freaky protagonist movies go, Hanna ranks the last, after, Let Me In/Let The Right One In and Kick-Ass.  It's not entirely bad so long if you can admire and don't look beyond the thoroughly, flawlessly translucent skin of Miss Ronan's.