JamesG
01-20-2012, 09:46 PM
Movie Reviews: Haywire
Critics have by and large concluded that Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire has put a new wrinkle on the action flick, thanks mainly to the performance of Gina Carano.
Betsy Sharkey remarks in the Los Angeles Times:
“Watching Carano kick, spin, flip, choke, crack and crush the fiercest of foes … is thoroughly entertaining, highly amusing and frankly somewhat awe-inspiring.”
Joe Morgenstern in the Wall Street Journal suggests that Carano’s character be viewed as:
“a fighting machine, one that registers ambient danger with all the efficiency of The Terminator and the light irony of James Bond, but also as a beautifully seductive construction at the center of a film that is itself an elegant machine.
There’s no deeper meaning to Steven Soderbergh’s thriller than what meets the eye, yet its lustrous surfaces offer great and guilt-free pleasure.”
Anne Hornaday in the Washington Post says:
“Carano is not a great actress, but she doesn’t need to be in a movie that … doesn’t get bogged down in psychology. … Instead, Haywire simply gives audiences what they came to see: bruising fight sequences set up and executed with economy, skill and one or two genuine jaw-dropping jolts.”
But Carano leaves Rex Reed of the New York Observer cold, writing that she has “all the charisma of a Sherman tank.”
As for the movie itself, it’s “nothing more than a locker-room joke. Nothing resembling plot, character development or a star-making career move of any kind is anywhere apparent.
The whole point of this time-wasting farrago of idiocy is that women can cut, kick, slash, burn, maim and kill just like men — and make bad movies that are just as stupid.”
-IMDB News
Critics have by and large concluded that Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire has put a new wrinkle on the action flick, thanks mainly to the performance of Gina Carano.
Betsy Sharkey remarks in the Los Angeles Times:
“Watching Carano kick, spin, flip, choke, crack and crush the fiercest of foes … is thoroughly entertaining, highly amusing and frankly somewhat awe-inspiring.”
Joe Morgenstern in the Wall Street Journal suggests that Carano’s character be viewed as:
“a fighting machine, one that registers ambient danger with all the efficiency of The Terminator and the light irony of James Bond, but also as a beautifully seductive construction at the center of a film that is itself an elegant machine.
There’s no deeper meaning to Steven Soderbergh’s thriller than what meets the eye, yet its lustrous surfaces offer great and guilt-free pleasure.”
Anne Hornaday in the Washington Post says:
“Carano is not a great actress, but she doesn’t need to be in a movie that … doesn’t get bogged down in psychology. … Instead, Haywire simply gives audiences what they came to see: bruising fight sequences set up and executed with economy, skill and one or two genuine jaw-dropping jolts.”
But Carano leaves Rex Reed of the New York Observer cold, writing that she has “all the charisma of a Sherman tank.”
As for the movie itself, it’s “nothing more than a locker-room joke. Nothing resembling plot, character development or a star-making career move of any kind is anywhere apparent.
The whole point of this time-wasting farrago of idiocy is that women can cut, kick, slash, burn, maim and kill just like men — and make bad movies that are just as stupid.”
-IMDB News