Director Steven Soderbergh turns his hand to the action genre with Haywire.
How do he and MMA star turned actress Gina Carano fare?
All of which I assumed would make for a near perfect action flick.
This, however, is not the case.
I cant stress enough thatHaywireisnt an action movie.
There are about four key fight scenes, mostly short, but thats about it.
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InHaywire, theres nothing to really cling on to from the outset.
But Soderberghs meddling goes one step too far and forgets the one key rule to give it some heart.
For some strange reason Id forgotten how much I love that man.
And speaking of things I did love in the film, there is Gina Carano.
Still, I was incredibly curious as to how Carano would hold up coming from an MMA background.
I thought she did so incredibly well, especially in such esteemed company.
Regardless, Carano is now on my action movie radar, the poor woman.
Neither seemingly care whats going on around them, but at least have fun in the process.
Ewan McGregor is on American sleaze duties, with the mighty Michael Fassbender not far behind.
He was one of the few things inG.I.
When someones being chased down in the street, smooth retro jazz doesnt really get the adrenaline pumping.
Curiously, the fights themselves are a strange hybrid of cinematic techniques.
In fact, the whole film is relatively free of anything more graphic than a bruise.
Its incredibly hard for me to actually decide where to stand onHaywire.
Rating:
3 out of 5
