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Comment by Magic Marmalade:

Will have to watch this again, but I remember being really impressed with it, and thoroughly enjoying this...

It is your basic super assassin Jason Bourne style premise, except here it is a young girl, stolen from the facility that created her by her father, into the wilderness to escape the evil clutches of the programme overseers.

They get found out, and must split up, leaving Hanna to fend for herself in the big bad world she is not accustomed to, and all the while being pursued by the evil sleeze we commonly associate with this kind of programme.

Where this differs form the usual movie of it's type, is that Hanna gets in with a normal family out travelling, and tastes a normal life, such as we might know, and sees what she has been missing, in terms of a normal young girl's life...

...In addition to which, the story is framed as a modern Grimm's fairly tale, with her being the innocent (ish) young girl wandering in the wilderness, pursued by the big bad wolf - the excellently slimy wicked witch type portrayed by Cate Blanchett, who is determined to stop at nothing to recover Hanna, in spite of Woodsman style character dad, Eric Bana's having prepared her for such an eventuality.

This framing makes for an at times dreamlike, fairy-tale atmosphere, in an otherwise fast paced, brilliantly choreographed fight fest, every bit the equal of any movie in this genre, and all excellently contrasted against the every day normal family lifestyle reference points of Hanna's new friends, whom she at once endangers through her presence, but also learns from, what it is to be a "Real Girl".

And all carried along by a very memorable score by The Chemical Brothers.

What more do you want in a movie? :)