Haywire

Boring.leeway.thumbsdown

Very uninspiring, if not outright terribly bad, cameraworks. It's cool that the action scenes don't use shaky cam, but almost every other scenes are unnecessarily long (like the one where she walks on hotel corridor and the one on road). Chases have no sense of thrill/urgency at all with only one camera shooting her run for a very long time. The accompanying music is also very flat, doesn't leave any impression on the scenes. The writing is simple in its premise but convoluted in execution. Dialogues are cheesy and Gina Carano isn't really the greatest actor. The spotlight of this movie is Gina Carano's impactful fight scenes (of course since she is an MMA artist). However the bad cameraworks and music directing from start to finish fails to capture her dynamics and wastes Gina's talent. Like one critic says, it feels like Gina is trapped in the film. If you come across someone recommending the film as a good action movie, don't hear them like I did. They're just hipsters.