Haywire

This is a custom built vehicle for MMA fighter Gina Carano, who can stunt fight with the best of them and crush men’s balls with a mere gaze. There are some fun fights in this, prolonged, brutal, and absent of the typical action-movie cuttiness. Director Soderbergh is also clever enough to surround non-actor Carano with some of the best in the business, Michael Douglas, Ewan McGregor, and newly crowned leading man Michael Fassbender, all of whom appear to have been ordered to, “Make her look good…” There’s not much story here, and it could easily wait for video, but it’s a successful b-movie spy bruiser that might make Pam Grier or Jennifer Garner proud to have blazed the trail.