This movie is so overrated . . . and rather disappointing. I can't believe that movie critics are tripping themselves over this.
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Haywire Review
Gina Carano transitions from MMA star to movie star
Haywire's plot is boilerplate triple-cross, cloak-and-dagger stuff — but the action choreography by director Steven Soderbergh and former MMA fighter Gina Carano puts the impact back into screen violence. After a setup, ex-Marine Mallory Kane (Carano) goes rogue from her job as hired muscle for a private government subcontractor, looking for answers from her boss and former lover, Kenneth, played by Ewan McGregor. The rest of his network is played by famous faces — Antonio Banderas, Channing Tatum, Michael Douglas, Michael Fassbender — but Haywire is very much a vehicle for Carano, appearing in her first film.
Haywire
The casting is more than a stunt, for Haywire makes full use of her particular physical capabilities in combats of rib-cracking resonance. Carano is also photogenic; this is important because Haywire is, after a fashion, a slapstick-violent, mercenary sex comedy, with Mallory getting romantically involved with each of her major combatants in turn.
The highlight combat-duet is a parody of a swank first date in which the aggressive male gets more than he bargained for in the bedroom, concluding in a smothering thigh lock that leaves its victim with a priceless sated and insensate expression before his black-widow goodnight kiss. This is a real war-of-the-sexes tournament, briskly paced with a tickling sense of dark humor. —Nick Pinkerton (Citywide)
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Very interesting...first "Drive" comes and gives the action genre a neon-colored, music video makeover, making the moments of violence almost like watching a ballerina...now "Haywire" comes and brings action back to some of it's quick yet gritty roots.
Honestly, I think the changes are long overdue, and hopefully we'll see more variety like that in the future...or people can keep on aping The Matrix and Equilibrium over and over again (As cool as those movies are). Hollywood's choice.
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