Great movie! Saoirse Ronan is a very impressive young actress. Her performance in The Lovely Bones was great and I think she's outdone herself in this role.
The movie starts off giving you just enough information that you're curious about the situation and as things progress the story becomes second-place to the characters. In fact, the story isn't exactly original or compelling. It's Saoirse's character and performance that grabs you and keeps you watching until the end.
As a basic synopsis, the movie is about a sixteen year old girl and her father who have lived in the frozen forests of some unnamed northern country. The girl has been trained in combat, survival and has memorised important facts about the world and her upcoming mission in it. She is well prepared for everything the CIA throw at her... except for the realities of the world itself and a young girls place in it.
I'd classify this is an action-drama but I'd recommend it for the drama. Saoirse manages to make a cold-hearted assassin sympathetic, much like Anne Parillaud did in La Femme Nikita.
4/5 stars from me.
The movie starts off giving you just enough information that you're curious about the situation and as things progress the story becomes second-place to the characters. In fact, the story isn't exactly original or compelling. It's Saoirse's character and performance that grabs you and keeps you watching until the end.
As a basic synopsis, the movie is about a sixteen year old girl and her father who have lived in the frozen forests of some unnamed northern country. The girl has been trained in combat, survival and has memorised important facts about the world and her upcoming mission in it. She is well prepared for everything the CIA throw at her... except for the realities of the world itself and a young girls place in it.
I'd classify this is an action-drama but I'd recommend it for the drama. Saoirse manages to make a cold-hearted assassin sympathetic, much like Anne Parillaud did in La Femme Nikita.
4/5 stars from me.
