Haywire
(PG13)- Release Date: 19th January 2012 (Showtimes)
- Language: English
- Running Time: 92 mins
- Genre: Action
- Director: Steven Soderbergh
- Cast: Channing Tatum, Ewan McGregor, Gina Carano, Michael Fassbender, Antonio Banderas. (Full Cast)
- Local Distributor: Golden Village Pictures
In "Haywire", beautiful freelance covert operative Mallory Kane (Gina Carano) is borrowed out by her handler to various global entities to perform jobs which governments can't sanction and heads of state would rather not know about. After a mission to rescue a hostage in Barcelona, Mallory is quickly dispatched on another mission to Dublin. When the operation goes awry and Mallory finds she has been double crossed, she needs to use all of her skills, tricks and abilities to escape an international manhunt, make it back to the United States, protect her family, and exact revenge on those that have betrayed her.
Latest Review
Total %^&^$%#$%#%^*(0
What I loved most: Nothing
What I really hated: Everything
They are the best in capturing scenes for trailers. They definitely conned me. Movie is a total crap. I rushed all the way to the cinema to watch this piece of crap. Its an action movie and THROUGHOUT the movie there is this classical song playing in the background which is damn annoying. Well the girl (dont wish to remember also) has pure fighting skills (well yeah becoz she is a figher).. storyline is crap.. watch this if u have alot of free time and money to spend...
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Total %^&^$%#$%#%^*(0
What I loved most: Nothing
What I really hated: Everything
They are the best in capturing scenes for trailers. They definitely conned me. Movie is a total crap. I rushed all the way to the cinema to watch this piece of crap. Its an action movie and THROUGHOUT the movie there is this classical song playing in the background which is damn annoying. Well the girl (dont wish to remember also) has pure fighting skills (well yeah becoz she is a figher).....More
They are the best in capturing scenes for trailers. They definitely conned me. Movie is a total crap. I rushed all the way to the cinema to watch this piece of crap. Its an action movie and THROUGHOUT the movie there is this classical song playing in the background which is damn annoying. Well the girl (dont wish to remember also) has pure fighting skills (well yeah becoz she is a figher).. storyline is crap.. watch this if u have alot of free time and money to spend...
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Film ruined by malaysian censors
What I loved most: Fight scenes
What I really hated: Censored scene!
It's not too strong for me to say that the film was "ruined" for me because of the Malaysian censor. I was paying Wednesday cheap ticket prices and can afford it but for any Malays who might be forking out quite a bit for them to see this, it may be a big deal and I would spend any hard earned Ringgit elsewhere! The whole understanding of what is going on was made incomprehensible...More
It's not too strong for me to say that the film was "ruined" for me because of the Malaysian censor. I was paying Wednesday cheap ticket prices and can afford it but for any Malays who might be forking out quite a bit for them to see this, it may be a big deal and I would spend any hard earned Ringgit elsewhere! The whole understanding of what is going on was made incomprehensible because of the chopped scene which contained a really important plot twist. Quite shocking and if I was the director I would think seriously about having any of my films shown in Malaysia again as my professional reputation could well be affected by people thinking I made films that were impossible to understand!
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DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME WATCHING THIS IN THE CINEMA
What I loved most: The visual of them fighting.
What I really hated: The entire movie
I can't believed I paid 23 bucks for this draggy shit. The trailer looked good but when it comes down to watching the entire movie in the cinema, it's a bore. Please watch it if you have a lot of time to waste.
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Gina Carano is amazing
I think I'm in love with Gina Carano. She's fantastic! She's an amazing, strong woman who is brilliant at expressing herself physically. Her movements are graceful, and Soderbergh did a great job of capturing it.
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It is refreshing to finally see a movie that is unpretentious about what it is; a straightforward revenge tale. There is no attempt by the script to assert plausibility or realism, such as how one woman can take down so many trained men so easily. Soderbergh has clearly struck gold with fighter Gina Carano, who is no acting veteran, yet manages to hold her own in this testosterone-laden movie. It is a treat to see A-listers like Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender, Channing Tatum and Michael Douglas quaking in their boots at the mere mention of Carano's Mallory Kane persona in "Haywire". Dialogue and emotion-wise, Carano does not deliver much, but Soderbergh has managed to draw attention away from the problem by choreographing one fight scene after another with raw realism.
Yes, the choreography is the main attraction of the movie, shot with just the right amount of a rough-and-tumble, making the choreographed scenes look as if they were improvised on the spot. There is just enough heart-thumping moments to make you sit up and on the edge of your seat, but you will never be overly afraid for Carano. In fact, you will be rooting for her in every brawl, for whenever Carano hits the walls she does it with so much conviction, as per her nickname in the ring, that you actually feel the walls shaking. Now, other actresses who have attempted such roles, no matter how toned and buff they became, just look like pretenders.
Besides the finely choreographed action sequences, Soderbergh also knows to make a fine choice of locations and mobile filmic methods. Expect nothing new unlike the vertigo-inducing Burj Khalifa scene in "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol", but enough so as to keep things exciting, such as the quick cuts and pans, the rooftop escapes, and the car chases in reverse gear. It is signature Soderbergh, and even the soundtrack in "Haywire" does not miss the beat. All the action is backgrounded with a generally chirpy but serious-when-it-needs-to-be tone set by composer David Holmes, whose choice of blues, jazz and techno music can be occasionally jarring.
In conclusion, "Haywire" is Soderbergh's venture into indie waters with his bet on untested talent Gina Carano and boy, does it pay off. For those who were wondering what Bond or Bourne would be like if they were women, "Haywire" is the answer. It is definitely one of the better movies to begin the year with, if not for the star-studded cast. Move aside, Angelina Jolie and Milla Jovovich, there is a new woman fighter in town.
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