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Critics Consensus: MMA star and first-time actress Gina Carano displays ample action-movie chops in Haywire, a fast-paced thriller with a top-notch cast and outstanding direction from Steven Soderbergh.
Critic Consensus: MMA star and first-time actress Gina Carano displays ample action-movie chops in Haywire, a fast-paced thriller with a top-notch cast and outstanding direction from Steven Soderbergh.
All Critics (190) | Top Critics (44) | Fresh (152) | Rotten (38) | DVD (7)
Steven Soderbergh continues his occasional practice of using actors as found objects in his perfectly enjoyable formula action-thriller Haywire.
Mixed martial-arts star Carano puts major muscle, if minor acting ability, into this enjoyable action flick.
Carano is strong, fast, relentless. She's not much of an actress yet, but Soderbergh hides her weaknesses well...
There's a good deal of pleasure to be had in the clockwork precision of her hand-to-hand combat, which Soderbergh often shoots in profile to showcase her wall-climbing backflips.
Carano is nothing special as an actress - but darned if it matters when she's supported by a killer screenplay, a sharp cast, and Steven Soderbergh's unmistakably sly, mordant direction.
If "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" was a fancy top-shelf cocktail, this is Polish vodka, neat.
Haywire is a movie that knows what it wants, which is to showcase the athletic prowess and personal charm of its star Carano. It achieves this goal stylishly and entertainingly.
Carano looks natural for a first-timer and this is the ideal vehicle for her.
I don't want to say much more than that. Haywire jumps right into the action, leaving lots of questions and a delicious sense of mystery that remains until the very end.
I am telling you, you have never seen female fight scenes like this. Carano, a formal mixed-marshal arts fighter, is incredible... This movie won't change your life, but it's a nice little popcorn-muncher.
The action is admittedly enjoyable at times, but your eyes and ears become perpetually distracted by the dull story and weak lead performances.
It's worth seeing, and hands-down it's one of your better options at the cineplex right now, but there's no urgency.
If you've ever wondered what Mission Impossible or Kill Bill would have been like if made by Soderbergh, now you have the answer. The fight scenes are pretty efficient but the formulaic plot holds no surprises, with irregular pacing and apathetic action scenes.
Super Reviewer
When a freelance black ops agent is betrayed by her employer she must evade capture by both the police and her erstwhile colleagues whilst tracking down the traitor to exact revenge. The plot to Haywire will never win any awards for originality but Steven Soderbergh's foray into Bourne territory is a nicely taut, no frills exercise in cold war style action that is a million miles from the glitz and bonhomie of the Ocean's franchise. He has clearly been watching the likes of From Russia With Love and Get Carter as the film has a very old school feel, with some bone crunching and brutal fight scenes. The striking but not implausibly beautiful Gina Carano is completely believable in her part as a tough as nails, no-nonsense she-Bond who is a coldly professional hard case who also happens to be a woman. The rest of the quality ensemble cast are also very solid, although I did feel that the unavoidably likeable Ewan McGregor was rather miscast in his part and Tatum appears and disappears again without warning and seemed only to be there as an excuse for some narrative flashbacks. These are relatively minor points though as Haywire is a quality post-Bourne thriller that harks back to Soderbergh's early career as cinematographer to the Coen brothers and is one of his better efforts of late.
Everyone is in this movie. Seriously. It's a fun ride, with enough twists and turns to keep me guessing.
What a pile of rubbish, it had a very odd pace, with long terrible music to go with the fight scenes that look scripted rather than a realistic look! It was boring and uninteresting!
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