This movie is hard to summarize other than the phrase " dark grow up fairy tale story". Joe Wright has crafted an unique story where despite a young woman is trained almost from birth to kill, Joe Wright choose to make her preparation for the real world really fairy tale like. Joe choose to let Hanna grow up anticipating fights from people who want to kill her everyday, hunt in forest and the father reading encyclopedias instead of fairy tales for bedtime stories. As the child of puppeteers, its easy to see how Joe makes some of the set pieces
[spoiler] , such as Hanna walk into her father's friend, a magician is full of circus like house, and a field full of theme park like dinosaurs. [/spoiler] . Saorise Ronan did it spendidly as the titular character, with her exploring friendships, kisses and apply the practical aspects of what she learn. Eric Bana is very solid , and Cate Blanchett is fabulous as her turn with the wicked ice queen role [spoiler] with one scene she gleefully seduces the two children for information [/spoiler]

The fighting arcs is not as neat as other action movie - but I will argue that for this movie its perfectly valid: Hanna's path to adulthood is full of bloodshed, and her facing all the enemies her father warned her since her toddlerhood. Its a dark tale, but a fine allegory of a teenager growing up and apply the skills they learned. And its an interesting take after thousands of generic action movies.