Review of Hanna

A girl hunts a deer and kills him almost without any emotion. A man attacks her. It's actually her father and trainer. The girl remains on the ground, exhausted, on a white background in the mountains. Next to her the red of the disembowel deer.
The first scene of the new Joe Wright film does nothing but showing us the way he will take throughout the story, with a cinematography made of visual contrasts and an atmosphere of a black fairy tale as a modern take on the works of the Brothers Grimm.
Hanna, in fact, is like the princesses of fairy tales, motherless, saved from the witch and raised far from the world, waiting to be strong enough to take revenge. Many years ago, Hanna's father, a former CIA agent played by Eric Bana, escaped with baby Hanna and her mother - who died - bringing with him a secret that was worth their lives. So he decided to grow his child on the eternal snows of the Arctic Circle, training her to be a perfect killer.
Hanna is rapid, strong, in addiction of English she also speaks German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, but the only knowledge he has of the outside world comes from the words and books from his childhood. She never met anyone, never seen a city, never listened to music. Her only mission is to kill Marissa Viegler before Marissa kills her.
From here begins an adventure that is an action movie and a coming-of-age in which Hanna finds herself step by step until the revelation of her true nature, with a crescendo pace and scenes mysterious and full of tension. Those scenes are good represented, fast but never chaotic, like the one with Hanna running across the ventilation ducts in the CIA building, where the visual impact and the speed of movement blend with the beautiful soundtrack by the Chemical Brothers to the exit in a place you could never image.
Dialogues are concise and the film revolves around the violent chase between the two protagonists which is also a game between the talent of two great actresses, a Saorsie Ronan perfect in her icy beauty and innocence but also pitiless just like the red-haired Cate Blanchett, who's able to frighten even with her eyes or her voice hitting like a knife. In this all-female fight, the character and the performance of Eric Bana result underrated, even the ending disappointed me a little, since I think he (character/actor) deserved a little more.
Hanna's journey toward revenge is marked by all the typical fairy-tale symbolism to the scene of the encounter with the "witch" Marissa, who comes out from the jaws of an enormous wolf in a pure fable final trait.