Haywire

Against hefty odds, Gina Carano's covert ops hard nut Mallory Kane ably obliterates all comers in Steven Soderbergh's revenge smack em up. Likewise, Haywire delivers an agile drop kick to doubts stacked against it.
It isn't Soderbergh at his most Oscar fit (Traffic), artful (Solaris) or ambitious (Che), but it's dispatched with the brusque style of his keenest genre cuts (The Limey, Ocean's Eleven), sending a smarting message to action flyweights everywhere as in you do it like this.
MMA fighter Carano hasn't acted before. Deferred release dates gave Soderbergh time to knock out Contagion since shooting it. Worrying signs, both. But no scars of post production panic are visible.
More crucially, Soderbergh bests earlier work with a none actor (The Girlfriend Experience) by cleaving closely to Carano's strengths, you'll believe she can do more damage than Salt and Hanna combined.
Limey writer Lem Dobbs globe trotting script is cavalier at best, crude at worst. But it doesn't faff about, opening and closing with the same word and mincing few others in between.
After Kane escapes a takedown bid by fellow operative Aaron (Channing Tatum), her backstory gets info dumped to hostage to tell plot to Scott (Michael Angarano). Any remaining tidbits are spilled at the end, where shady, well cast supporting roles (oily Michael Douglas, beardy Antonio Banderas) click into cursory focus.
But Haywire isn't about story or character. It's about slick, muscular tag team action chops. Kane was betrayed on a Barcelona extradition mission, but details are less important than Soderbergh's jazzy montage of breathtaking efficiency, cut to David Holmes's snazzy score it's clipped, clean, cool.
Point man Ken (Ewan McGregor) set Kane up, but conspiracies are backgrounded to flaunt Carano's physicality, multi smackdowns peaking as she decimates Michael Fassbender and high class hotel furnishings.
Sure, limitations linger. Carano has charisma but lacks range, rendering human intrigue involving her dad (Bill Paxton) and Tatum as dead weight. Arguably, Soderbergh's tendency to deliver two films in quick succession still maxes momentum at the cost of emotion.
But pared back purity of purpose is Haywire's point and it's played with tough panache. By the time Kane reaches Ken, you'll be too busy keeping up with the punches to fret over subtleties.
Although Haywire is a little rough around the edges and the plot thread bare it's still hard, fast and brutal Soderbergh's sucker punch return to action knows what it's about. Not subtle or substantial, but it gets to work with flab free focus.
See if you like....
Salt.
Hanna.
The Boune Quadrilogy.
Taken.
Quantum Of Solace.

Against hefty odds, Gina Carano's covert ops hard nut Mallory Kane ably obliterates all comers in Steven Soderbergh's revenge smack em up. Likewise, Haywire delivers an agile drop kick to doubts stacked against it.
It isn't Soderbergh at his most Oscar fit (Traffic), artful (Solaris) or ambitious (Che), but it's dispatched with the brusque style of his keenest genre cuts (The Limey, Ocean's Eleven), sending a smarting message to action flyweights everywhere as in you do it like this.
MMA fighter Carano hasn't acted before. Deferred release dates gave Soderbergh time to knock out Contagion since shooting it. Worrying signs, both. But no scars of post production panic are visible.
More crucially, Soderbergh bests earlier work with a none actor (The Girlfriend Experience) by cleaving closely to Carano's strengths, you'll believe she can do more damage than Salt and Hanna combined.
Limey writer Lem Dobbs globe trotting script is cavalier at best, crude at worst. But it doesn't faff about, opening and closing with the same word and mincing few others in between.
After Kane escapes a takedown bid by fellow operative Aaron (Channing Tatum), her backstory gets info dumped to hostage to tell plot to Scott (Michael Angarano). Any remaining tidbits are spilled at the end, where shady, well cast supporting roles (oily Michael Douglas, beardy Antonio Banderas) click into cursory focus.
But Haywire isn't about story or character. It's about slick, muscular tag team action chops. Kane was betrayed on a Barcelona extradition mission, but details are less important than Soderbergh's jazzy montage of breathtaking efficiency, cut to David Holmes's snazzy score it's clipped, clean, cool.
Point man Ken (Ewan McGregor) set Kane up, but conspiracies are backgrounded to flaunt Carano's physicality, multi smackdowns peaking as she decimates Michael Fassbender and high class hotel furnishings.
Sure, limitations linger. Carano has charisma but lacks range, rendering human intrigue involving her dad (Bill Paxton) and Tatum as dead weight. Arguably, Soderbergh's tendency to deliver two films in quick succession still maxes momentum at the cost of emotion.
But pared back purity of purpose is Haywire's point and it's played with tough panache. By the time Kane reaches Ken, you'll be too busy keeping up with the punches to fret over subtleties.
Although Haywire is a little rough around the edges and the plot thread bare it's still hard, fast and brutal Soderbergh's sucker punch return to action knows what it's about. Not subtle or substantial, but it gets to work with flab free focus.
See if you like....
Salt.
Hanna.
The Boune Quadrilogy.
Taken.
Quantum Of Solace.

Using a highly conventional storyline of a CIA operative double crossed and left hanging out to dry having to go on the run to find out who and why set her up, Steven Soderbergh's version of the story turns out to be a surprisingly humdrum bordering on quite dull actioner.

A star studded cast show up and Carano definitely brings the action abilities (and acquits herself well enough when not fighting) but it all feels very....................cheap and lazy. As if Soderbergh didn't have the budget he wanted to make the film and made no effort to cover that up. The film is missing any kind of spark of life to it and even the action scenes sometimes seem to resemble rehearsal takes rather than more smoothly oiled actual ones.

It sounds like a lot of complaining but it's just the feel the film gives out. While it has it's moments it's way below par from what I would expect from it's director and cast and doesn't make itself stand out from the crowd of other films with basically the same plot.

This is a very awesome and interesting thriller with a cool story with plenty of action and twists in the plot as it unfolds, there has been allot of female assassin type bond style thrillers lately all good and this is one of the best, fantastic cast the lead actress Gina carano is amazing (MMA fighter) and knows how to handle herself, the supporting cast all have great roles too and there is plenty of famous faces including Michael Fassbender, Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas, Ewan McGregor, Bill Paxton and more, the fight scenes are all very stylish and well put together and have no music score playing over them most of the time making them more real and gritty, a great movie and a must see. There are a couple of good features too one of them is all about Gina and her transition from pro fighting to her first movie.

When I went too see this movie. I expected a sort of Bourne like movie. I was so dissappointed. The film began what felt like half way through the film, the fights were slow and boring, just overall a waste of time, good acting was wasted on a pointless and enjoyable movie.

So many people seem to simply not 'get' this film because it's not the cheesy Jason Statham action flick they expected from the trailer. Which is fair enough - trailers are always aimed at getting as many bums on seats as possible and the trailer for this film is misleading.

This has a deserved 80% on Rotten Tomatoes and it's a smart thriller with a brilliant score and stunning acting from everyone involved.

Forget the negative reviews - this is a very cool movie and another brilliant film by Steven Soderbergh.

Nothing like how it comes across on the trailers, the music they play during the film sounds like its meant to be used for a totally different movie, over all i didn't really get it or understand who most of the people were and the movie was just a big let down.

I felt disappointed,let down and tired after watching this film, it was confusing. The fight scenes were about 30secs, the story was all over the place and the big stars(actors) wern't in it much. About 5 people walked out the cinema 40mins into the film. I was falling asleep.