Review 173: Haywire

Haywire is a stupid, soulless and incompetent thriller that no veteran lead actor can save, let alone newcomer Gina Carano and possibly Steven Soderbergh's worst film to date.

Mallory Kane (Gina Carano) is a high level covert operative who is betrayed and left for dead by someone in her own organization. With several assassins on her trail, Mallory must survive long enough to discover the truth and exact her revenge.

The plot is just ludicrous and is so lackluster that it feels utterly unfree of the "incoherent action sequences and overcooked special effects that plague similarly scaled Hollywood pictures." Also I usually state in my reviews that the plot is simple but with Haywire it really isn't, It's completely incomprehensible.
Director Steven Soderbergh's directing is sloppy, the editing is choppy, the sound mixing is horrible, the sound effects are excruciating, the score is gunk, the production design is generic, the ending gives me the creeps and the violence is just numbing instead of exiting or thrilling or provocative. "Peter Andrews' cinematography was brilliant and the locations were gorgeous though.

The wasn't good either, Gina Carano gives a crap debut performance, Channing Tatum and Micheal Fassbender are here just to be killed, Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas and Bill Paxton are here for no apparent reason and the less said about Ewan McGregor the better.

Haywire is an overated and stupid thriller and a poor debut for a mixed martial artist.

Comment if you have any ideas or suggestions for this review. 1/5.

The Anonymous Critic