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- 2012
- R
- Relativity Media
- 1 h 33 m
- 2012
- R
- Relativity Media
- 1 h 33 m
Summary Mallory Kane is a highly trained operative who works for a government security contractor in the dirtiest, most dangerous corners of the world. After successfully freeing a Chinese journalist held hostage, she is double crossed and left for dead by someone close to her in her own agency. Suddenly the target of skilled assassins who know ...
Directed By: Steven Soderbergh
Written By: Lem Dobbs
- 2012
- R
- Relativity Media
- 1 h 33 m
- 2012
- R
- Relativity Media
- 1 h 33 m
Haywire
67
7.5
Where to Watch
Summary Mallory Kane is a highly trained operative who works for a government security contractor in the dirtiest, most dangerous corners of the world. After successfully freeing a Chinese journalist held hostage, she is double crossed and left for dead by someone close to her in her own agency. Suddenly the target of skilled assassins who know ...
Directed By: Steven Soderbergh
Written By: Lem Dobbs
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 40 Critic Reviews
67
70% Positive
28 Reviews
28 Reviews
28% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 40 Critic Reviews
67
70% Positive
28 Reviews
28 Reviews
28% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
In truth, Haywire is simply a delivery system for ass-kickings, calibrated to the specific talents of Gina Carano, a former mixed-martial-arts star and American Gladiator whose fists (and feet) of fury can rattle skulls and cave in chests.
There's no deeper meaning to Steven Soderbergh's thriller than what meets the eye, yet its lustrous surfaces offer great and guilt-free pleasure.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 443 User Ratings
7.5
66% Positive
293 Ratings
293 Ratings
21% Mixed
93 Ratings
93 Ratings
13% Negative
57 Ratings
57 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 443 User Ratings
7.5
66% Positive
293 Ratings
293 Ratings
21% Mixed
93 Ratings
93 Ratings
13% Negative
57 Ratings
57 Ratings
Saw the movie and wasn't expecting much due to the reviews on meta. But I have to say Gina Carano was great as the lead - the action was great, the stunts were as you would expect --- really well done and realistic. She fit the role perfectly vs. an angela jolie type who looks breakable from one punch. It was a strong move to cast her in this role. All of us thought she has a big career infront of her. It's definitely a different type of action film, from look and feel, to plot structure vs. traditional action films. The plot keeps you guessing for awhile as you try to put the pieces together. At the end you really have to start paying attention. A fun movie definitely better than a Mission Impossible to me and really refreshing to see some action like that.
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Beautiful in a girl-from-the-neighborhood sort of way, Carano inhabits Soderbergh's elaborate frame with wit, physicality and just a hint of ironic distance, the suggestion of someone who's not overawed by the opportunity or taking herself too seriously.
Soderbergh tends to get one big idea - a thesis idea - per film and stick with it even when a touch more flexibility would help. Here it's that non-kinetic camera, which he's so wedded to that parts of the film seem underenergized, like a cheap seventies or early eighties picture you'd catch at two in the morning on Cinemax's tenth most popular channel.
Haywire cavorts around the world - Barcelona, Dublin, upstate New York, New Mexico - with Bourne-again energy and timeline shuffles, making only cursory attempts at plot coherence
Once the talking stops and the action begins, her professionalism is very much in evidence and exciting to watch. And yet, somehow, it cannot quite relieve the tedium of a movie that is too cool even to pretend that there is anything worth fighting about.
Haywire makes no sense whatsoever, which should come as no surprise. It's the latest brainless exercise in self-indulgence from Steven Soderbergh, whose films rarely make any sense anyway.
Basically everyone who gave this movie a bad review is brainwashed by Hollywood. Probably people who liked Mall Cop or something, and people who don't like seeing women kicking ass. If you want to leave the theatre satisfied and thinking "Wow I just saw a really good movie", go see it. It's a totally unconventional action movie, simply great. It feels 'realistic' in a human condition.
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I was very interested to see this movie. A film with a real heroine, a
woman that can take care of herself, beat up the bad guys/gals and not
just exist as a model actress (though Gina is very beautiful) while all
the stunt women do the real work.
However, what I got with this movie was horrible acting with wooden
performances, cheesy lounge music over everything, and exceptionally
dull dialog. The main draw of a women mma fighter, "the third best 145
lb (66 kg) fighter in the world", was that we'd get a real actress that
handles all the dialog, the acting and some great fighting, as she
actually knows how to fight properly (muay thai no less). However the
fight scenes were over-directed, over-edited, and too short. Very few
moments even felt like they were Gina, as the heavy editing could've
allowed for a stunt double anyway. Gina seems to lack the charisma to
hold a lead role as pretty much any of the supporting super-cast gave
more energy and life to the film than she was able to.
To see how a movie can look with a real fighter/actor look no further
than JCVD. The film with John Claude Van Damme playing a version of
himself with realistic action scenes and tense drama. The opening 5
minutes of that film alone better demonstrates what can be done with an actor
than knows how to fight than any moment in this film can possibly wish
to achieve.
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This film is only 90 mins so the 30 mins I watched were a whole 3rd of it and in that time nothing happened to draw me in. There is no real introduction, it just throws you into the story with more random cut-aways than family guy and no idea what the hell is going on. There's annoying cheesy 80s style background music most of the time and the fights are more 'wrestley' than actually punching or shooting each other, not that there seems to be many fights, just a lot of talking.
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Production Company
Relativity Media,
Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board
Release Date Jan 20, 2012
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating R
Tagline They left her no choice.
Website
http://www.haywiremovie.com/
Awards
Golden Trailer Awards
• 3 Nominations
Critics Choice Awards
• 1 Nomination
Central Ohio Film Critics Association
• 1 Nomination
