Review: "Hanna" - 4/25/11

There seems to be a trend emerging here. It’s nothing really definite yet but I can feel it; kind of like how a raccoon or a deer can smell the air and somehow sense an impending cataclysm. And what is my spidey sense is telling me? That action movies can be art films too.

But I’m not referring to just any movie with Nicholas Cage.

I’m talking about actioners getting serious makeovers from the A-list art-house crowd. Take, for instance Paul Greengrass. Before he was seconded to the “Bourne” franchise he was tackling social issues. Before the “Batman” reboots and “Inception”, Nolan was teasing out issues of philosophy in low-tech thrillers. And really, how the heck did Johnnie To (arguably John Woo’s inheritor) go from helming melodramas to this?