This is very, very difficult. But sometimes children are bad people, too.

Date: Monday 4th March
Film: Hanna (2011)
Director: Joe Wright
Starring: Saorise Ronan, Cate Blanchett and Eric Bana
Running time: 01 hour, 51 minutes
Rating: 7/10

I've had this movie from LoveFilm for a while and have been waiting for the mood to strike to watch it. Monday night, an early dinner with the girls and I was home and ready for bed by 9pm (rock and roll). There wasn't much on the telly, I couldn't be bothered to venture into the living room for a movie, my internet was being a little rubbish so streaming was out the window. Hanna it was.

I think it's safe to say my watching of this film wasn't borne from a desire to see it, more an overwhelming sense of laziness. I wanted to see it, I had been the one to add it to my LoveFilm list, at a high priority. I just wasn't 100% convinced it was what I wanted to watch at that moment.

For me, Hanna was a revelation. I wasn't aware this was a Joe Wright film, I'm not sure how that information passed me by, I adore the look of Joe Wright films, Atonement will always be stunning, and Hanna is no exception. Every scene is framed beautifully.

As far as I am aware, Wright has not directed anything like Hanna before, an action film, a thriller film, a chase film. Hanna is 16, she has lived in isolation with her father all her life, training as an assassin, learning her identity. The film tells of the mission he sends her on, across Europe, trailed by the CIA.

Saorise Ronan is fabulous, as always, playing the lead. A girl that has had limited interaction with the world, discovering things for the first time. Eric Bana and Cate Blanchett head up a strong supporting cast but, in every scene she is in, your eyes are on Ronan.

Overall, Hanna is a really great film. One worth checking out.

Challenge day: 160
Challenge time: 09 days, 22 hours, 20 minutes
Challenge film total: 123