Haywire (2011)

A black ops super soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and set up during a mission.

Director:

Steven Soderbergh

Writer:

Lem Dobbs

Stars:

Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender

6 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Gina Carano	...	Mallory Kane
Michael Angarano	...	Scott
Channing Tatum	...	Aaron
Debby Lynn Ross	...	Diner Waitress (as Debby Ross Rondell)
Michael Douglas	...	Alex Coblenz
Antonio Banderas	...	Rodrigo
Ewan McGregor	...	Kenneth
Julian Alcaraz	...	Victor
Eddie J. Fernandez	...	Barroso
Lluís Botella Pont	...	Helpful Guy (as Lluís Botella)
Aaron Cohen	...	Jamie
Max Arciniega	...	Gomez
Anthony Brandon Wong	...	Jiang
Michael Fassbender	...	Paul
James Flynn	...	Hotel Clerk

Storyline

Freelance covert operative Mallory Kane is hired out by her handler to various global entities to perform jobs which governments can't authorize 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.

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Plot Keywords:

rescue | revenge | raw fights | arthouse action | shootout | 

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Taglines:

They left her no choice.

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Genres:

Action | Thriller

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Certificate:

14A

Details

Official Sites:

Official site Official site [Japan]

Country:

USA Ireland

Language:

English Spanish

Release Date:

20 January 2012 (Canada)

Also Known As:

Piégée

Filming Locations:

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Box Office

Budget:

$23,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$8,425,370 (USA) (20 January 2012)

Gross:

$18,934,858 (USA) (16 March 2012)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Relativity Media, Irish Film Board

Technical Specs

Runtime:

93 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital Datasat SDDS

Color:

Color Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The copyright holder of this film is "Five Continents Imports." Five Continents Imports is a cover name for the CIA in the 1975 film Three Days of the Condor (1975).

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Goofs

Mallory's New Mexico Drivers License says "Mallory Cane" and is signed "Mallory Cane", her US Passport says "Mallory Kane" and is signed "Mallory Kane".

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Quotes

[first lines]
Mallory Kane: Shit.
[deep breath]
Aaron: [sitting down] What the hell are you doing out here? I had to drive all night. I'm hungover as shit. And you're really starting to cut into my vacation time, so can we go please?

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Connections

Featured in Conan: The Guy Who Actually Went to the Gym He Joined on New Year's Day (2012)

User Reviews

Flat plot with commendable action scenes

Haywire stars MMA fighter Gina Carano as Mallory Kane, a mercenary sent on a mission to retrieve a hostage in Barcelona. Mallory had planned to leave her current mercenary outfit, but her boss convinced her to finish one more job in Dublin, where she meets her partner Paul (Michael Fassbender). At a party hosted by their contact, a mysterious gentleman, Mallory discovers that she has been double-crossed and spends the remainder of the movie following the typical revenge scenario of tracking down her wrongdoers.

While director Steven Soderbergh attempts to add flavor to the plot by starting the film in medias res, this technique does not add value to the already flat plot-line. Instead, Carano's superb action scenes carry the movie. You can immediately tell from her fighting technique that she is a superb MMA fighter, as her style is very similar to that portrayed in the MMA film Warrior. Furthermore, Soderbergh's decision to portray these action scenes with all background noise silent gives Haywire a more realistic feel.