Sunday, September 11, 2011

HANNA

Film has a strange rhythm to it.  One that jars you out of the film.  The editing, the music, the way the plot moves - all strange.  I'm not sure about Joe Wright.  I liked ATONEMENT but this and THE SOLOIST are terrible movies.  Movies that call Wright's competence as a director into question.

He cannot shoot action.  The scene where Eric Bana takes down five or six actors looks embarrassingly staged. 

He cannot get powerful emotions across.  I never felt the pain Hanna's feeling when she learns Bana is not her father and that her entire life is a lie.

If you had put this script into Luc Besson's hands, the film might have rocked.  In Wright's hands, the film becomes a muddled mess.

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