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Steven SoderberghScreenplay:
Lem DobbsCinematography:
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David HolmesCast:
Gina Carano, Michael Douglas, Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Channing Tatum, Bill Paxton, Antonio Banderas, Michael Angarano, Mathieu Kassovitz (more)VOD (1)
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From Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh, this dynamic action-thriller introduces mixed martial arts superstar Gina Carano as Mallory Kane, a black-ops agent for a government security contractor. After freeing a Chinese journalist held hostage, Mallory is double-crossed and left for dead by someone in her own agency. Suddenly the target of assassins who know her every move, Mallory unleashes the fury of her fighting skills to uncover the truth and turn the tables on her ruthless adversary. (Roadshow Entertainment)
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Haywire wants to be a stylish thriller with a cool heroine, physical action and a clever plot. Instead, it’s just stylish inanity that takes itself too seriously, is too unnecessarily complicated to be a proper chill-out movie and the main character is a violent cold-blooded lesbian about whose fate you don’t really care. A strange pulp hybrid.
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Soderbergh goes against expectations once more - although that was actually expected - and offers a simple fable in which the plot comes last. The schematics of the director's rendition of the secret agents and even more secret leaders evoke in me a mockery of the rules of the genre rather than its adoration. I'm no film scholar, so I don't have to do any digging into it. I was entertained by the clear action scenes, dominated by Gina Carano's physical abilities, and Soderbergh's unorthodox approach. So when Holmes' bizarre music plays during the hostage liberation scene, which evokes cheap spy themes, I sank into my seat and rode on a fully positive wave until the end. PS: I'd damn well change places with Fassbender in the leg choke scene.
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The whole thing is nothing-like, empty. The action scenes are top-rate (the chase through the forest!), in terms of acting - nothing to criticize, but the fillers between one piece of action to the next bored me to death. I’m sorry, but actors just reeling off their lines without a thought just isn’t enough for me. Haywire is ingeniously directed, just the frequently inappropriate music bothered me.
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From Soderbergh, it's actually capital malice. To shoot such simple B-movie misery with such narrative finesse, prudence, but at the same time with moments when Haywire ostentatiously declares the good old era of VHS excavations (iconic shots of the heroine's face, the ending (!!!), meaningless cuts into sharp backlight, etc.). The advantages of the film stand out when you put it in the context of the annoying fashion of female agents (Salt, Colombiana) - Soderbergh irritates, calms, laughs, stays in the intentions of his clinical mode, but this time with a somewhat chill out flavor (elevator music and calm cut give it really long smoke). Haywire is amusing with its nonsense, which it is completely aware of. It's a film that pretends to be the possible beginning of a B-series - but it's too reflectively confident and deliberately subversive for a godless B-movie. It's just Steven's controlled flicker, a fun anecdote that unfortunately didn't go as far as Drive and contented itself with a great deal of uselessness. Paradoxically, I enjoyed this nonsense. [70%] P.S. Gina Carano really has balls, in a bourgeois dress and in the use of choke holds.
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Everything but cliché. An excellent film that you need to learn to like. Gina Carano is an incredible fighter and the action scenes are amazing, in my opinion better than in the Bourne trilogy; they are dense, believable, physical. You can feel MMA with every second. Packed with stars, but only on the surface. Soderbergh plays incredibly well with the given genre and essentially shows everyone the middle finger. Many people won't appreciate this film, but a few will really like it.
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