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Title: Haywire (2011)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Gina Carano | ... | Mallory Kane | |
| Michael Angarano | ... | Scott | |
| Channing Tatum | ... | Aaron | |
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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 | |
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Lluís Botella Pont | ... | Helpful Guy (as Lluís Botella) |
| Aaron Cohen | ... | Jamie | |
| Max Arciniega | ... | Gomez | |
| Anthony Brandon Wong | ... | Jiang | |
| Michael Fassbender | ... | Paul | |
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James Flynn | ... | Hotel Clerk |
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. Written by Anonymous
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It's got a simple, but hugely unoriginal plot - Special Ops agent gets doubled-crossed (yawn) and proceeds to exact her revenge on those who wronged her, yeah, it sounds very much like the standard plot for your average Steven Seagal straight-to-DVD actioner - not a film directed by Steven Soderbergh!
I suspect that Soderbergh is not overly familiar with this particular genre, otherwise he might have avoided the clichéd script like the plague...
The direction for this piece is restrained almost to the point of inertia - any energy generated within the action scenes comes sorely from the mixed-martial artistry of Ms. Carano, it almost feels as if Mr. Soderbergh is embarrassed by the notion of directing an action thriller.
Soderbergh does his usual thing of peppering his films with stars and/or solid character actors, but despite the presence of the likes of Ewan MacGregor, Michael Fassbender, Antonio Banderas, Michael Douglas, etc, they are underused in what are essentially expanded cameos - only MacGregor gets to shine a little, but his character is underwritten and lacks any credible motivation for his actions.
Gina Carano acquits herself quite well, especially so given the fact that she is carrying the movie on her inexperienced shoulders - that and the cold, hard reality that her character is basically a Jason Bourne clone, albeit with female genitalia...
The film also suffers from the fact that it doesn't have a climax, it just simply stops.
The restrained approach Soderbergh adopted for this film is it's undoing - short, sporadic bursts of action in an uninspired and leisurely-paced script damage Haywire badly, if Steven Soderbergh had bothered to have injected a bit more zest and flair into his direction, the film might have been redeemed somewhat and not turned into the lifeless, miserable clone that it is.
PG.