A large majority film would’ve looked more effective had their screenplays gone through just one more draft.
For Hannah probably could have been had a better outcome with less.
The film’s premise is an intriguing small dark winter film. An armed bank robber is trying to get out of town, only to discover that his vehicle is failing. He treks through the snow until it lands on the house in hopes that he will take another vehicle and then go on. However, the husband is angry and can hear the voice of his robber.
The criminal in pursuit is stuck in a house with a tense couple, who have no clue of how to proceed.
It’s an excellent setting, even if it’s not very experienced in relation to the movie The Ref The Ref, the movie that entrapped in the shackles of criminal Denis Leary in the house with the yuppies who fight Judy Davis and Kevin Spacey. Director of art has given the house to the couple with plenty of Christmas-themed decorations . The twists and turns of the plot when we learn that the owner of the property might be a criminal as well.
The film then turns off the comic-like black path and becomes simple black, with strangling hitting hammers and stabbings chloroformings, and a clear view of the brain’s matter moving through walls. It’s not so much fun as witnessing a fight between a couple an armed bank robber who’s eyes are dilated.
Then after you’ve adapted to the new style , before the film’s plot begins to descend into a low-budget comedy that features exaggerated locals fed corn and a stupid television reporter who is unable to complete an interview without shouting and sheriff who seems to have come from the earlier “Hee-Haw” program.
This film Hannah might be great single-film (personally I would prefer the violent option since the scriptwriters don’t have the necessary skills to make this type of film). However the cutting and inclusion of three different options can throw the whole film off equilibrium. It’s like having gone through the draft of a novel and realized there was something missing from the plot, but wasn’t sure what exactly it was, then decided to go all in.
It’s a tribute for Shannon Brown for providing the bank robber with a dark sort of authority at minimum, and the director John Wesley Norton for capturing certain snowy scenery. There’s also an excellent action sequence that’s similar to the murder sequence in the film Hitchcock, In the Torn Curtain is a reminder of the difficulty to kill someone with one’s hands.
The end result is that the film is a bit too long, and also slightly scattered to be efficient. Like our criminal who is sloppy and has to quickly escape from the bank when the bank was accidentally set on flame – you may finish the film and realize you didn’t get the experience you wanted.
