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Feels like an art-house action movie. Shot extremely well with many interesting and creative shots and moments. The music is fantastic, as well as the scenes without music. Editing is great, cinematography is beautiful. A nice assembly of talented, high-profile actors and a very solid turn by Gina Carano, who is a great screen presence and an absolute force. I truly believed she could kick everybody’s ass. The fight choreography is stellar. The scene in the hotel room with Carano and Fassbender might be the greatest hand-to-hand combat scene in film history. So…what went wrong? Well, the script is just so god damn awful. Get the script right, and everything else is icing. Mess up the script, and all you get is empty calories.
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Haywire, or as it is better known ‘Butch chick running around for hours in various cities with cool, swanky, used to death music in the background intermixed with a couple of fight scenes’ Surely there must be a plot? Nope, classic case of style over substance. Films like this need to have some sort of original idea story-wise. Haywire’s plot borders on the senile, it is that obtuse. And it clearly thinks its viewers are morons as well as it has the urgent need to explain everything we already know. I like Soderbergh, but he really overplays his hand here. A film like this cannot justify its existence by style and a supposedly cool soundtrack alone. It has to have suspense, shocks, involvement, in short, a plot. The only teeny, tiny merits I find here are a couple of cool and well-directed fight scenes. And that’s it, really.
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I really like when a movie is about a character so skilled at what they do it formally opens it up to move with a playfully stylish and effortless ease, even if what that job is the weightiest, matter-of-fact hand-to-hand operator combat of its decade. I think it was rejected on release for taking a genre so inherently exciting and emphasizing the banal savagery of it but that quality is exactly what makes it an interesting entry in the long line of assassin conspiracy actioners. Shame about Gina Carano too because she basically gives a perfect physical performance in this and Soderbergh builds it so well to her strengths it’s genuinely insane that he’s never tried his hand at this type of action again. Gorgeous digital anamorphic framing, very sharp montage cutting and of course a who’s who of wonderful character actors playing slimy human trafficking CIA agents. What’s not to like?
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Gina Carano super can’t act, but she can really throw a punch. Antonio Banderas has never missed. Channing Tatum is Soderbergh’s muse. Ewan McGregor is MY muse. Bill Paxton is there.
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71/100 Fuse this stoic piledriver with Schizopolis and you’d have an outright masterpiece (and guaranteed box-office flop, but oh well): Bravura running/driving/asskicking sequences occasionally leavened by the espionage equivalent of “Generic greeting returned!” and “Imminent sustenance” rather than actual tedious expository plot bullshit. There’s enough of the latter clogging Haywire’s first act that I briefly thought it had lost me, but once Fassbender shows up for one of the all-time great beatdowns—normally it takes an entire wasted ’70s rock band to inflict that much damage on a hotel room—the movie settles into a blissfully workmanlike groove, serving up one old-school, unspectacular setpiece after another. (That last adjective is a compliment.) Carano isn’t necessarily much of an actor, but even her…
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“Do we need to have a conversation about Barcelona?” This is a perfect object, a multicourse meal of fights, chases, and espionage lingospeak without any even mildly unstimulating elements allowed in the frame. There should have been three or four more of these already.
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basically what’s been going on in my apartment between me and the mice
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After reinventing the heist genre with Ocean’s Eleven, Steven Soderbergh is back with another classic but certainly entertaining spy thriller with plenty of kicks and punches. Everyone´s favorite actress Gina Carano does a good job delivering some of the sassiness and the punches, though even with dubbing, it was evident she wasn’t the best actress when it came to delivering anything resembling emotion and just felt a bit wooden. Additionally, the other great cast members are also really good though not their best in their filmography, but they sell their characters; though at the end of the day, it was likely the stunt crew who did the bulk of the work, so they should be lauded for that. On the…
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The most calming action movie I’ve ever watched. It’s like Soderbergh was holding my hand and stroking the top of it with his thumb the whole time. Neat! Four stars!
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Gina Carano, Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Channing Tatum, Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas, Bill Paxton. Everybody in this movie, please just punch me in the face and choke me out. 👧👊🤼♀️🤸🏻♀️🥋🗡🔫
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🎬 Haywire Réalisateur: Steven Soderbergh Genre: Action/Adventure Movies Durée: 1h33 Année: 2011 ⭐ Note : ⭐️⭐️ Synopsis: Une super-soldate des forces spéciales cherche à se venger après avoir été trahie et piégée lors d’une mission. Critique: – Scénario bon, mais sans plus. Note finale : 2/5
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Very enjoyable Bourne-lite thriller from Soderbergh, who always does a good job of stripping things down to their bare bones. We’re not really here for the plot, but the bone crunching fight sequences of course. What Carano lacks in the acting department is more than made up by the impressive stunts she undertakes. The Fassbender fisticuffs is particularly impressive. The support cast is impressive from Douglas to Paxton to Banderas – all sparingly used, but adding a ton weight of gravitas to proceedings. It works well as a self contained movie, but I’d definitely be intrigued if it was fleshed out into a trilogy.
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This was better than expected with a star studded cast. Not feeling her cornrows, but whatever. Wish there were more breadcrumbs earlier on so we could understand why. Did people actually need to die over this? Confusing.
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Soderbergh plays to Carano’s strengths while using the fights and the rest of the cast to make up for her weaknesses. Better and more enjoyable than I expected it to be
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2012 Ranked
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This one is graded on the Soderhberg curve. If it were journeyman X it’d score higher. Main drawback is Carano as lead. Also its very early 2010’s love of running punches.
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Like this one still on rewatch. You can kind of see the alternate timeline in which Carano made a living out of these action thrillers. She has a simple, effective style here and performs some very skilled stunts and fight choreography. Many notably cool hairstyles as well. Star-studded cast doling out signature Soderbergh tersespeak.
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Somehow felt 20 minutes too long
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Imagine hating your ex-wife this much.
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It’s a tough beat when the lead is a horrible actor
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This is what Gina Carano thinks happened to her after comparing getting the COVID vaccine to the Holocaust. Steven Soderbergh yet again cranking ’em out like nobody’s business. Haywire is a lean and mean action thriller at 93 minutes. Contrary to the title, Haywire is actually rather meticulous like most if not all of Soderbergh’s work. Screenwriter Lem Dobbs, reuniting with Soderbergh after penning Kafka and The Limey, isn’t reinventing the wheel when it comes to the tropes of the…
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J
GREAT cinematography, KILLER action sequences (except Ewan MacGregor’s), and at least to me, good score. The rest is very forgettable.
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Dreadful fever dream of a bland movie.
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Literally just 90 minutes of guys foolishly trying to beat Gina Carano’s ass but themselves getting their ass beat
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it would be a mistake to think of her as a woman
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Gambit x Obi-Wan Kenobi x Magneto vs ancienne MMA fighter, who won? Idrc, c’était pretty mid.
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JJosh 8 月 10, 2026
Soderbergh and an insane cast and it’s all dragged down by a wooden Gina Carano and a script that I couldn’t give less of a shit about. Huge dud for me tbh. Also the music choices?? So strange.
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Entertaining with a stacked cast and funny ending. I’m still partial to Ocean’s eleven though
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The only woman in the movie doesn’t even get to use her own voice. But Carano’s a great puncher and an impressive physical actor so I guess she’s like Arnold in Hercules or David Prowse in the original trilogy. It’s banal, kind of boring and the fights are fireworks, big bangs and then – nothing. Soderbergh tries in vain to dress up the wafer thin plot with some time jumps and fancy cinematography. But in the end this is fluff,…
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Gud hjelpes dette var First Price James Bond.
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Les scènes de baston 🤩
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Beautiful action choreography. Left me wanting more. Soderbergh’s camera and edit need no introduction. The rest, not so much.
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Almost had a heart attack finding I couldn’t post this review when letterboxd was down! She was fighting bad guys wearing her Kiera Knightley hat from Love Actually.
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i think what i love most about soderbergh movies is i never have to learn a single characters name
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Gina Carano is both this film’s great idea and its structural problem. Steven Soderbergh saw the MMA fighter in competition and recognized something action cinema had nearly edited out of existence: a body capable of doing what the movie claimed it was doing. No seizure-cam, no twelve cuts disguising one elbow. Carano could actually beat these men senseless, and Soderbergh organized an espionage thriller around that fact. The catch is that silence makes her look like a movie star and…
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loved seeing mallory put bta but i got bored and that bob was chopped
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Looked cool but pretty dull. Hate to say it but my guy Ewan seemed pretty miscast in a sinister, antagonistic role like that.
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Soderberg is just out there making full on star studded practice movies. This is profoundly forgettable, but makes me appreciate the finished works even more.
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Basically a test run so he could perfect the masterpiece that is BLACK BAG (2025). Gina Carano was awesome when she was fighting and terrible when she had to act. This had all the Soderbergh trademarks from the lighting to the jazzy score and it’s just so crisp all the way around.
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Interestingly, as I get older, the more I enjoy Steven Soderbergh, and I think it is because I am able to dissociate from his movies and watch it from the perspective of his (unintentional) intended audience, which is a male audience member lol. I put “unintentional” in parentheses because I think the majority of these auteurs just expect the default audience to be straight cis men like themselves. If i can’t have the privilege of white straight cis men in…
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watched this for ewan mcgregor i didnt know what i was expecting, this is so peak they even got hank pym involved in all this this is so underrated
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watched it for ewan mcgregor i didn’t know what i was expecting, this is so peak they even got hank pym involved in all this this is so underrated
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Steven Soderbergh strips the spy thriller down to its essentials and the result feels refreshingly grounded. The action is fast, brutal and believable, without endless cuts or shaky camerawork trying to fake intensity. He trusts the choreography and the performers to do the work and that confidence gives every fight real impact. Gina Carano is a natural fit for the role. She doesn’t rely on flashy dialogue or exaggerated emotion, she lets her physical presence do the talking. The supporting…
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I’m gonna start with Gina Carano; she’s amazing! Bad editing. I had such big problems with editing. And again, David Holmes disappointed me with the score. The score wasn’t fit in the scenes. And the Duet fight scene between Carano and Fassbender was absolutely well made; with no score! And that was a nice idea.
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This movie is 10% great fight scenes and 90% spy music
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Shot and edited well as you come to expect from Soderbergh, cast is stacked, just found this one kinda dull. Story is as boilerplate as it comes.
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Some of the visuals remind me of “Traffic” & also “The Limey”. I haven’t watch Traffic yet but after seeing this I’m more excited to now! Nice action. Decent but basic story. If there’s a gun involved, min watching. If it’s by a director I like, I’m definitely watching! Good job Steven!
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Goddamn, what a cast
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2026 Summer Vacation Movie Collection – No. 28/32 It’s a basic action thriller with hardly any surprises to be had, but it’s still fun. It’s got good action, a good score, good performances, and great style. Not much more to say. Gina Carano, are you free this Saturday? 😏😍
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Steven Soderbergh is the greatest. If he made a documentary about a kindergarten spelling bee, I would be first in line. I love the way he tells a story. Top flight cast including Magic Mike, Antonio Banderas, Gordon Gecko and the android David. Gina Carano could have been a huge star.
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Every single guy that showed up on screen surprised & delighted me. Soderbergh is just so good
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Solid. Love that Soderbergh, as usual, shot and edited this himself. Gina Carano has great presence; I can see why Steven was inspired to work with her. The re-editing (or completely re-dubbing?) of Carano’s lines are unfortunately really distracting. The delivery is flat. I think her original voice work would have faired a lot better. This is a throwback thriller, right down to its fun, jazzy original score. Unfortunately it’s also very formulaic: black-ops worker seeks revenge on the agency…
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J’ai pas compris mais y’a l’acteur qui s’est fait dézingué la gueule dans Inglorious Basterds (drei gläser)
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Action was good, had typical Soderbergh elements, was very complicated and easy to follow at the same time, stellar starcast
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Il a pris tout les codes narratifs du film d’espionnage pour en faire un film d’une lenteur latente, presque fièvreuse dans sa façon de capter la tension et l’action. Bref il fait d’un projet qui avait tout pour être une histoire de vengeance oubliable un film sensoriel et distancié des conventions du genre.
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Gina tufff
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It was like watching someone trying to impersonate Soderberg in the editing room. It was weird. Cool fight scenes tho
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Epitome of “I can’t get enough Michael Fasbender screentime”
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I only watched this for the cast
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Standard “operative betrayed by employer” story. The action was okay but stil settles out as non-memorable. Maybe rewatch Ronin instead.
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Avec les quelques films de Steven Soderbergh que j’ai vu, j’ai remarqué que ses films étaient soit excellent soit pourri à souhait. Et bah là c’était de la grosse merde
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73/100 Tredje titten, första på fem och ett halvt år, och betyget fortsätter sin klättring uppåt, nu från 67/100. En sublimt snabbfotad och effektiv Soderbergh-rulle—så som sig bör—där actionscenerna är allt och vägarna till dem är nästintill redundanta. Det känns som att i även de ytterst få lugna scener som finns här så hänger knytnävarna, löpstegen och de yttre hoten över allt och alla. Gina Carano är bra i huvudrollen, och man kan ju få sämre uppbackning i sin första sådana än Fassbender, McGregor, Douglas, Banderas, Angarano, Tatum, Kassovitz och Paxton (och så vidare).
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Oh my my. A film so beautifully shot it actually shows how highly trained and skilled the character is. The Barcelona job is one of the best spy action I’ve ever seen.
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Rare Soderbergh miss.
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a movie which dares to ask, “what if casino royale was… bad?” very slim. slim to the point that when I thought of the bond comparison I realized this feels much like that movie but after months of malnourishment. the poster and premise promise a trial-by-fire akin to my goat the raid, but my knowledge of soderbergh tells me there will be a plot, and looking for the raid will leave me sorely disappointed. what I ended up with was…
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IIcarus253 7 月 25, 2026
gina carano kinda delivered her lines, like this, the whole time.
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Mr Soderbergh you are better than this. You had such a great Cast and You made this slop. Please don’t ever do this again. And to all other directors out there Carano is a weak lead at best, PLEASE do not put her as a main character again.
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Paul, the motive is money. The motive is always money. Why did Gina Carano have corn rows for the last few fights? She’s not a good actor but otherwise it was a very fun time. I just love Soderbergh and I love Barcelona. Shoutout my guy Mathieu Kassovitz.
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i love you mr soderbergh but please write a script for your sweet sweet cast incredible use of gina carano physical presence – hard to watch her wear the brimmed beanie for so much of the movie though
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Soderberg的真實職業身體系列：找真的MMA格鬥女打仔演出女特工。打戲多用長拍，避免時興的《神鬼認證》式手持破碎剪輯，但真正擊中前就剪掉（應是安全考量），某方面真的沒達到很痛的感覺⋯反而有點沒力= =（對不起我看慣港片）故事有點白爛，就是看著怒女一路痛扁男明星們：Channing Tatum被折手、Michael Fassbender被爆頭、反派兼渣男友Ewan McGregor被淹死，最後從Antonio Banderas身後跳出來，是在惡搞吧XDDD 因此帶出意外樂趣。
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I think it’s the third of fourth time I’m watching this and still very much enjoying it because no matter how much I like it I can’t seem to remember anything that happens past the first scene a few weeks after seeing it. Looking forward to the next rewatch…
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CCarl Patterson 3 月 8, 2013
Loads of famous actors but way too convoluted for it’s own good. Great fights. I’m sure Charlie Boorman was behind the bar in the scene with Ewan McGregor and Michael Fassbender.
- Synopsis
- A black ops soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and left for dead.
- Director
- Steven Soderbergh
- Writer
- Lem Dobbs
- Studio
- Relativity Media, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland
- Country
- USA, Ireland, Spain
- Language
- English, Spanish
- Year
- 2011
- Runtime
- 93 mins
- USA06 Nov 2011
- Germany15 Feb 2012
- Turkey01 Nov 2011
- UK18 Jan 2012
- Kazakhstan19 Jan 2012
- Bulgaria20 Jan 2012
- Philippines25 Jan 2012
- Armenia26 Jan 2012
- Hong Kong02 Feb 2012
- Romania03 Feb 2012
- Indonesia08 Feb 2012
- Israel16 Feb 2012
- Italy24 Feb 2012
- Malta29 Feb 2012
- Hungary01 Mar 2012
- Spain02 Mar 2012
- Czechia08 Mar 2012
- Austria09 Mar 2012
- Australia14 Mar 2012
- Netherlands29 Mar 2012
- Estonia30 Mar 2012
- Belgium11 Apr 2012
- Brazil13 Apr 2012
- Denmark19 Apr 2012
- Lithuania27 Apr 2012
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