HAYWIRE REVIEWED!

Haywire starts innocently enough, a woman walks into a diner, sits down and has a cup of tea while waiting for her contact. Soon enough she's in a violent fight for survival as her contact surprises her with coffee to the face and a punch to the stomach. American Gladiators Gina Carano makes her feature film debut as a for hire soldier who is framed for a murder she didn't commit.

The movie is fast paced enough as our lead travels from city to city finding trouble at every turn. The action is well done and Gina Carano's character, Mallory is believable as someone who can take a punch as well as giving one.

Haywire is also packed with famous actors in small rolls. Channing Tatum, Michael Douglas, Ewen McGregor, Antonio Banderas and Bill Paxton are around to give this movie the star power needed to prevent its release to DVD only.

The look of the movie was a mix of brightly lit locals and dirty/grainy camera work. All of which is typical of it's director Steven Soderbergh(Ocean's Eleven, The Informant!) The one weird thing I found was the soundtrack. It either didn't have any soundtrack or when it did, it was straight out of a 1970's TV show. Half the time, I expected "Shaft" to pop out from around a corner.

So, is it worth admission? I would say yes. Is it groundbreaking? Um, no. But sit back and enjoy "Crush" from American Gladiators kick the crap out of a bunch of dudes for 90 minutes.