Cinema Review: Haywire

A Special Forces operative is on the run against a conspiracy.

Steven Soderbergh continues is run of good movies. The idea here is to do a bourne style movie with added MMA style fight with Gina Carano, real life MMA fighter, one of the best in that business.

Legend tells that Soderbergh got the idea watching a Gina Carano match in his hotel room late at night and that he had no previous knowledge of MMA and no idea who Carano was, or even her name, and that it took a while for him, probably for his assistant, to track down the relevant information.

As of lately Soderbergh get an interesting idea and spins it without trying to be art house for the sake of art house but neither lowering the standard too much ocean 12 and 13 style. He makes interesting movies that somebody might want to see.

Gina Carano is not an actress, at least not now, but the role is literally tailored to her so this is not an issue, she basically plays herself as a superspy. She even got some odd kind of charisma going on, nothing too incredible just the feeling that she could do all that stuff for real.

She is surrounded by a lot of heavy weight actors, Michael Douglas, Michael Fassbender, Ewan Mcgregor, (and Channing Tatum so she got also somebody that is worst than her) so that all the non action scenes flow nicely.

The action of course is spectacular and very interesting. It is as innovative to current action cinema as “The matrix” was ten years ago, even if it will probably spawn a lot less clones.

Probably overstepping himself Soderbergh went for a peculiar euro vibe. The movie clearly tries to ape those 70s thrillers but is very difficult to recreate the feeling of another genre and another age, Joe Wright was successful in Hanna but Soderbergh ends with a very cold end product.

A very interesting but flawed movie that is still enjoyable to the casual viewer.