Wednesday, 22 April 2015

Haywire (2011)

This perfectly serviceable action thriller from director Steven Soderbergh should really have done better than it did. The ingredients are all there, the story is solid and the cast which includes Micheal Dougles, Fassbender, Antonio Banderas and the always enjoyable Bill Paxton, is good but it's let down by mistakes in the direction.
Ewan McGregor is miscast, his accent is poor and he's too sympathetic for a bad guy.
The locations are ill-chosen. Madrid masquerading as Barcelona is silly and if you're going to have a chase through a big city it has to be somewhere instantly recognizable like Paris or New York, I'm afraid Dublin just doesn't cut it.
The massive fights with next to no blood are also a bit ham fisted, if you'll pardon the expression.
Gina Carano sure is muscular, as you'd expect from a professional fighter, but she does very well next to Fassbender.
Channing Tatum could never be a "secret agent". A man with a neck the same width as his head and little Shrek ears attached as some sort of afterthought does fine as a stripper but sticks out like a sore thumb.
It's always a coin toss with Soderbergh. This is no piece of wonder to go along with The Limey or Che, nor is it something one should feel embarrassed for watching, like Ocean's Thirteen.
Overall...perfectly serviceable...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1506999/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1





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