Haywire

Unrated

11/6/20111h 33m

Premiere Release (US)

~ They gave her no choice ~

Overview:

A black ops soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and left for dead.

Director:

Steven Soderbergh

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$23,000,000.00

Revenue:

$33,372,606.00

Key words:

rescue
mercenary
secret agent
foot chase

Cast

Gina Carano

~ as ~

Mallory Kane

Michael Fassbender

~ as ~

Paul

Channing Tatum

~ as ~

Aaron

Michael Douglas

~ as ~

Alex Coblenz

Antonio Banderas

~ as ~

Rodrigo

Ewan McGregor

~ as ~

Kenneth

Bill Paxton

~ as ~

John Kane

Michael Angarano

~ as ~

Scott

Julian Alcaraz

~ as ~

Victor

Anthony Brandon Wong

~ as ~

Jiang

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Reviews (2)

PG
Per Gunnar Jonsson
Written 7 year(s) ago
4
Unfortunately this movie is the case of the trailer being a lot better than the movie. I was hoping for some nice revenge-movie with a kick-ass female agent. Unfortunately this movie does not really deliver on that. It is quite slow for starters. Sure, at times Mallory does kick some ass but a lot of the time is spent on flashbacks and much of these are really really slow.

The plot is a very standard and unoriginal one about agent getting double-crossed and subsequently deals out some pay-back. I have no problem with that. It is a valid setting for some nice action. The problem lies in the implementation.

The acting is never anything to write home about. You get the feeling all the characters are just reading of the script in order to get the scenes done and over with. As a consequence you never really get any attachment to neither the heroine nor the bad guys. Most of the movie I just sat and waited for the next action scene to begin. There are quite a few good names in this movie but, sadly, none of them are really allowed to “take the stage” and give any real performance.

The bottom line is a very mediocre and sometimes downright boring movie.
JPV852
Written 4 year(s) ago
7
Been some time since I last watched this one but on a lark, decided to revisit and while not great and certainly a weaker entry amongst Soderbergh's resume, I found it entertaining enough and the raw fight scenes, with no underlying score, was unique at least and I generally enjoy Gina Carano in the lead here. 3.5/5