A black ops super soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and set up during a mission.
It’s a stripped-down action chase movie directed, shot and edited by Soderbergh with a level of energy and invention that puts most action directors to shame.
Hard, fast, brutal: Soderbergh’s sucker-punch return to action knows what it’s about. Not subtle or substantial, but it gets to work with flab-free focus. Beat that, Bourne 4.
The patsy-out-for-payback plot may be old hat, but Soderbergh’s trademark tricksy structure and elliptical flashbacks do a fine job of making the familiar feel fresh.
This isn't just the best action film since Bourne, it also exudes the sort of flair and cool of a 60s Bond movie. A class act.
Gina Carano shows off the fighting skills of Mrs Bourne Identity but the acting range of Mr Turnip.
A fresh, muscular payback movie shot through with Soderbergh’s mischievous indie-spirit. Whether Gina Carano is the new Angelina or the new Cynthia Rothrock, only time will tell...
Tense, invigorating [to] watch...just don't expect much from the plot.
Steven Soderbergh brings an enjoyably artful approach to ass-kicking mayhem with this stripped down, tightly wound riff on the rogue agent revenge flick.
Soderbergh keeps the tale roaring along, giving Carano ever more inventive ways of showing the boys she's not a mere girl. Soderbergh at his grooviest.
You need a diploma in Gobbledegook to know what is going on, never mind to care.
Soderbergh seems to be relishing cinema’s potential for fun – and that means we do, too.
The fights are awe-inspiringly real looking. But there are only about three or four such moments, and the rest of the film is taken up with pretty boring moody location work in various cities.
I'm not sure Carano has great expressive technique as an actor, but she's very watchable as the nutsack-punching, rooftop-leaping street commando.
I gather that Ms Carano is a kung fu legend and a martial arts champ. What she most definitely isn’t is an actress.
Formulaic thriller. At least the fight sequences are cool. But they’re also tiresomely gimmicky.
he result is a repetitive, fast-moving picture in which Carano gets involved in chases, fights and shoot-outs, some of them lethal.
Haywire is pure, no-nonsense entertainment, exciting and stylish, and with the introduction of a new action heroine who is much more than a Hollywood A-lister buffing up.
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