Who would ever have thought that Robert Ludlum would have become the father of modern action cinema? The ruthless 2002 film adaptation of his novel The Bourne Identity — with the hero trying to figure who or what he (or she is), while amassing a body count that warrants coverage on CNN — is now the genre standard, and in this year alone, we’ve seen a number of variations on that theme. The most recent is director Joe Wright’s efficient and soulful Hanna , in which the title character (played by Saorise Ronan), a pale-skinned teenager with matching sandalwood hair and eyebrows, has mastered the art of contained chaos.
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REVIEW: Saoirse Ronan is Nifty New Action Heroine in Hanna
