CRITICS’ CHOICEDaddy’s little... assassinHanna (Amazon Prime Video)Saoirse Ronan starred in the 2011 film Hanna, with Eric Bana as her renegade former-spook father, Erik, and Cate Blanchett as Marissa, the spy he trains her to kill. Now Amazon — possibly craving a Killing Eve of its own in a boom era for girls with guns — has turned the movie into a visually alluring series, with Esme Creed-Miles playing the semi-feral heroine and Joel Kinnaman and Mireille Eros as the ex-colleagues pursuing a vendetta. Part one shows Hanna growing up alone with her dad in a Polish forest, then starting her mission by surrendering to the CIA. That this fairy tale-like prologue is untypical of what follows is suggested by a second episode that opens with…
Source: The Times March 24, 2019 00:05 UTC