kevinjrosser Haywire is an excellent espionage film. Made even better by Gina's understated performance and realistic fight scenes. Not to mention a great cast and great score. Quintessential Soderberg.

chriswright1969 After reading the appreciation of Steven Soderbergh on his website for the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service, I always felt that his own spy movie Haywire (2011) was his answer to the biggest issue of the film: George Lazenby. He writes about Lazenby: "What seems obvious to me, though, is no one was helping him during the shoot or the edit" In his spy film Haywire, he gives the lead to an inexperienced actress (Gina Carano) and gets a good performance out of her (there were however some tweaks to her voice in post-production, but this is not an uncommon technique).The fight scenes are very much like the early James Bond movies such as From Russia With Love, Thunderball and of course On Her Majesty's Secret Service (there even is a beach fight scene).Other than the fight scenes and the globetrotting plot, Haywire is not very Bondian. It is more an update of the paranoid conspiracy movies from the seventies in Soderbergh style. The plot has a lot of twists and turns: a black ops agent is being setup for assassination.The other issue Soderbergh has with OHMSS is the length of 142 minutes: "the film is too long, the longest Bond film until Casino Royale nearly three decades later". Meanwhile Spectre (2015) has broken this record with 148 minutes. Haywire closes curtains very satisfying at 93 minutes.

mainhunter-68567 First, i really liked the fighting scenes, they came without needles cuts and were well executed. Also, the first girl that runs like a man, or just how it should look when someone runs properly.... but the rest is so bad. Gina, although I like her, can't act at all. She acts like a beautiful mummy. No face expression that matches the scenes well.The casting was awful too. It really looked like some top acts try to act like some B-Movie actors.... looked wired. McGregor is to big a Star as could he plausible play such a looser running away from a "girl". You could read in all of those faces "When do I get my money...?".Storyline is so meh. James Bond type hero gets betrayed by his bosses and starts a revenge. Must be the first Movie of this kind ^^.And who did the light? Or was that absolute horrid stage lighting made on purpose, so you only saw her face half of the time in the hole movie? No thrill at all, literally hours of running and chasing and you never get these goosebumps, cause you wont fear something could happen to the main cast.This movie purpose is only to grab your money.

slimjim2010 Absolute drivel. Everyone involved in the film should be slapped and sent to bed early without their tea. Please spend your time watching something else. If you much watch it look out for the tumbleweed, it was totally the highlight for me.The acting is weak, the plot in disarray and, as another reviewer has already stated, the film just ends with no explanation or conclusion. Not like a French film ending, it just stops as it the director had something better to do than finish the final scene.An embarrassment to the genre. With the caliber of the cast I had expected much more. I've watched many terrible films before, but this is the first that has motivated me to get an IMDb account and write a review to warn others!