The relationship between a father and his daughter is a special one. When a little girl is growing up, she remembers all the things she learned from her father. You know, things like hunting, combat skills, survival, foreign languages and of course preparing and training to kill CIA operatives. “Hanna”, though, is more than just a simple action movie about a little girl trying to find out who or what she really is.
I took my boys to see Battle Los Angeles, thinking okay, ‘the girls go get their hair done and the boys go see the big bad alien invasion flick’. It was big and it was bad and that is about it. Aaron Eckhart (The Dark Knight, Thank You for Smoking) stars as retiring Marine SSgt. Michael Nantz. He’s usually pretty solid, but even Two-Face can’t save this one. Sadly I had this movie on my “5 Spring Movies You Have to See” list. Whoops.
Sometimes, you just know a movie isn’t going to be any good. True you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, or in this case a movie by its poster or trailer. Wait maybe you’re supposed to judge it by the trailer…after all, the point of the trailer is to get you to watch the movie, right? Well, “Cedar Rapids” stars Ed Helms and is about a guy that goes to an insurance seminar…zzzzz….exactly.