Movie Review~

American Degree Programme 2012

Segi College Kuala Lumpur

Interpersonal Communication

COMM 100

Dhivasakti d/o Yogandran

SC-KL-00035739

Mr.Mohd Khalil

Haywire

   This dynamic action-thriller directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Lem dobbs boasts a talented cast that includes MMA superstar Gina Carano as Mallory Kane, in a demanding lead role that has her performing her own high-adrenaline stunts. Mallory Kane is a highly trained operative who works for a government security contractor in the dirtiest, most dangerous corners of the world.This movie screening takes up an hour and 33 minutes in complete presenting Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense scenes throughout the movie.

  The action yarn was built around mixed martial arts fighter Gina Carano, who looks great, handles dialogue well, and knows how to kick butt. The fight scenes are potent and well staged it isn’t every day you see a beautiful leading lady being smashed into walls and pieces of furniture by one of her leading men. What makes this tolerable is that she gives as good as she gets.There are some good chase scenes, too, in the streets of Barcelona and on the rooftops of Dublin.

  But the movie as a whole never takes off, and those action scenes aren’t enough to sustain it. I felt the air go out of the film at a specific point, when Carano and Michael Fassbender, who are posing as husband and wife, return from an eventful party and walk down a long corridor to their hotel room. The scene is played in silence, as we wait for what might happen once they get inside that room. But there is no electricity in the air, no buildup of tension.

  

  I couldn’t help thinking that Hitchcock would have had us on the edge of our seats at a moment like that. Soderbergh is not only a good director, but a savvy student of film. I like the concept of Steven Soderbergh’s story of a rogue secret agent differs from the Bourne movies in two ways.One is that the central character is female. This gives a certain piquancy to the ease with which she kicks the hell out of any man unlucky enough to cross her path. The other major difference is that Haywire just isn’t thrilling.

  There’s an awful lot of dreary and incomprehensible exposition to get through, and Gina Carano is not a charismatic leading lady.I gather that Ms Carano is a kung fu legend and a  martial arts champ. What she most definitely isn’t is an actress. The film is slickly made, and will probably please undemanding audiences. But with all that talent on both sides of the camera, Haywire should have been better.