Hanna: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album

Soundtrack album

A soundtrack album is any album that incorporates music directly recorded from the soundtrack of a particular feature film or television program. In some cases, not all the tracks from the movie are included in the album; however there are rare cases of songs in the trailers that do not appear in...

 to the 2011 American thriller film of the same name

Hanna (film)

Hanna is a 2011 European-American action thriller film directed by Joe Wright. The film stars actress Saoirse Ronan as the title character with Eric Bana and Cate Blanchett...

, directed by Joe Wright

Joe Wright

Joe Wright is an English film director best known for Pride and Prejudice, Atonement and Hanna.-Early life and career:...

. The original score was composed by the British big beat

Big beat

Big beat is a term employed since the mid-1990s by the British music press to describe much of the music by artists such as The Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, The Crystal Method, and Propellerheads typically driven by heavy breakbeats and synthesizer-generated loops and patterns in...

 duo The Chemical Brothers

The Chemical Brothers

The Chemical Brothers are a British electronic music duo comprising Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons. Originating in Manchester in 1991, along with The Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, The Crystal Method, and fellow acts, they were pioneers at bringing the big beat genre to the forefront of pop culture.- Background...

. Initially, the album was only released digitally, but it was released on CD on July 4, 2011 by Sony Music. Pre-orders of the CD from Amazon.co.uk were dispatched before July 4.

Singles

"Container Park" was released as a free download in between the release of the initial download of Hanna and the later CD release.

Track listing

Critical reception

The soundtrack received mostly positive responses from music critics, with many praising The Chemical Brothers

The Chemical Brothers

The Chemical Brothers are a British electronic music duo comprising Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons. Originating in Manchester in 1991, along with The Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, The Crystal Method, and fellow acts, they were pioneers at bringing the big beat genre to the forefront of pop culture.- Background...

 for producing solid background music. However, a few critics have cited a lack of experimentation as its flaw. According to Metacritic

Metacritic

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, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album holds a score of 64/100, indicating "generally favorable reviews", based on six reviews compiled from critics. Chad Grischow of IGN

IGN

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reserved high praise for the soundtrack, feeling the "duo nail the mix of violence and innocence".

Chart performance

• #77 in the iTunes UK chart (download release).
• #7 in the US Billboard "Top Electronic Albums"
• #11 in the US Billboard "Top Soundtracks"