Do you ever yearn to escape? Do you feel the urge to break free from the boundaries and world you know to discover who you are, your purpose and what you were born to do? Hanna, the obdurate heroine of the film of the same title, wants nothing more than to seek the answers to these questions.

Hanna opens in the snow-blanketed Russian mountains, where a teenage girl, Hanna, lives with her father in the woods.

Hanna is essentially a fighting machine. She has been raised to jump, flip and hold surly, burly men in headlocks. She has been training her entire life to be an assassin and to track down a ruthless, merciless intelligence agent named Marissa.

Ironically, Marissa has spent most of her adult life waiting for the ideal opportunity to track down and kill Hanna. However, the question lingers: why are these two unconscionable women at one another's throats? Needless to say, for the majority of the film, they are chasing each other across Siberia, North Africa, and eventually Europe, doing myriad jaw-dropping stunts along the way — there is no denying the film is unrealistic.

By the end of the movie, you realize that it was ultimately a touching story about Hanna coming home and finding her history so she can move on with her future. When I walked out of the theater, my first reaction was "Well ... that was abrupt." But, as I slept on it and pondered it for a while, I realized: Hanna is certainly a movie worth seeing.

Charlotte Smart is a junior at Santa Fe Secondary School. You can reach her at charchar@cybermesa.com.