First Look at Assassin Saoirse Ronan in 'Hanna'

USA Today has he first look at Saoirse Ronan in Hanna. "She'll play raised from childhood to be the perfect assassin by her ex-CIA man father (Eric Bana) in rural Finland. Cate Blanchett is the icy intelligence operative overseeing her mission." The film reunites Ronan with Joe Wright, who cast her for an Oscar-nominated role in Atonement. Focus has already set this film up for a 2011 release. When Kick-Ass was released, Roger Ebert went to great lengths to trumpet his distate for the way Hit-Girl was portrayed. It seemed his moral outrage allowed him to dismiss almost everything else about the film. Of course, there are plenty of characterizations movie critics find morally objectionable, but it isn't really the job of the critic to make pronouncements on those kinds of things, especially instead of the filmmaking itself. So I wonder what his reaction will be to this film. Sure, the girl is three years older that in Kick-Ass, but girls meting out justice doesn't seem to sit well with Ebert (who loved Happiness, in which it can be argued that nearly every adult character is morally reprehensible). So does he already hate it? Hard to say. He was also offended by Hit-Girl's dialogue, even if he enjoyed Bobby J. Thompson's non-stop stream of profanity in Role Models. Tough business, that moralizing. Hopefully, Ebert will give the story and the characters of Hanna a chance when the time comes.