“I Just Missed Your Heart”
Instead of reviewing the Transformers 3 like everybody else would, I chose to review a movie that pretty much no one had the plans of watching, at least no one in this part of the world. I am talking about Hanna, the Joe Wright-directed “thriller”. The movie stars Saoirse Ronan, the girl from Lovely Bones and Eric Bana – The Hulk and Cate Blanchett from The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons.
I put thriller between quotation marks, yea, because this is described as a thriller, but it’s actually not, this is an art house film that involves thriller elements, but it also involves some coming-of-age films elements and revenge-flick elements, so, this movie is a combination of a lots of types of films.
I personally liked this film, a lot. The acting on this film was amazing, especially Eric Bana, and I think the dude is extremely underrated, and Saoirse Ronan, the girl, was extremely believable as this person who is this person that was trained to be a warrior and has no knowledge on the outside world. The supporting cast was terrific, throughout the film, she met a family. Most of similar films tend to do this – they tend to put the protagonist next to a normal family, and as protagonist had never known anything about the “normal” world, the family would appear weird, but in this film, the family is actually weird, but on the appropriate amount. The group of killers was also great, especially the leader, he was charming in an evil way. But none of these characters were able to steal the show from the 3 protagonists, they were amazing.
The reason that I called this an art house film is because it was directed that way. The cinematography was amazing, but the movie was made in such an unpredictable way, and the sequences were so unique (there was a sequence of the movie where the group of killers was moving, and their rhythm coincided with the music, and I was sure it was intentional, and yea, I thought it was cool). Joe Wright did an amazing job directing this film, but because it was made as if it was an art house film, it might alienate part of the audience that would be interested in this type of films.
At times, this film reminded me (a lot) of Unleashed, the Jet Li film, but this movie was much better in most of the aspects, I would recommend this film to you, my non-existent readers, watch it on DVD, or even BluRay, it’s worth your time.
