Review of Haywire (2011) by Sgt. C — 29 Jul 2014

(56%).

Very much a B movie that so happens to have an A movie director and cast. The casting itself is almost a bizarre distraction as the largely unknown to cinema Gina Carano is joined early on by Channing Tatum, then Ewan McGregor appears with Michael Douglas and a bushy bearded Antonio Banderas, then soon after that Michael Fassbender and Bill Paxton show up. It's like one of those dreams that doesn't quite make sense as famous faces keep popping up out of nowhere. The plot is simple as iced water and has been done many times before, they've tinkered around with it a little, but even casual movie goers will know what's coming. And while the few fight scenes are very well done, and Carano more than holds her own both in action and acting, the dialogue throughout is monotonous and flat which really pulls the movie down. And why Soderbergh felt the need to mindlessly switch between black and white and colour during a few scenes is any ones guess (because it looks arty and edgy yet so very pointless). So in the end a film with nothing really new to offer, a bland script, a great, all be very random cast, with some nice action thrown in. If that's what you want, then that's all you'll get from this slightly oddball little flick.