Movie Review: Haywire

Steven Soderbergh is one of the most polarizing directors in Hollywood. There are times where he is absolutely brilliant and there are other times where he fails completely, Haywire is a prime example of the latter.  Action movies that are as dull as Haywire shouldn't be made. It wastes an extremely talented cast on an absolutely empty script in which literally nothing happens. This film tries to sell that it has intelligence when in reality it has a script that feels like a direct-to-video revenge thriller starring Steven Segal minus a majority of the action. Soderbergh takes a very amateurish approach and this movie feels rushed and cheap. He was phoning it in on this particular project and if you didn't know any better you wouldn't think that he is capable of being a great director on certain projects. The worst parts of this movie are based around the action scenes and a abysmal performance from Gina Carano. The action scenes (the few that there are) are nearly identical and lifeless. Every fight lasts about a minute and ends in a triangle choke. Just because triangle chokes aren't used often doesn't make the fight scenes original and more importantly, exciting. Gina Carano is the biggest problem I had with the film though. She has absolutely no charisma or presence as an actress.  Sure she's pretty nice to look at and she's a good fighter, but she is a horrible, horrible actress. Haywire is a boring, useless action/thriller which wastes the talent involved with a brain-dead script and amatureish production values.

1.5/5 Stars