Steven Soderbergh has often talked about his admiration for
Point Blank, John Boorman’s stylish 1967 gangster revenge film.
The Limey, Soderbergh’s previous collaboration with screenwriter Lem Dobbs, was in many ways an homage to it. Their newest project together,
Haywire, merges their appreciation for that classic Lee Marvin film with modern fight choreography. The result is a lean and vastly entertaining picture.
The movie stars MMA fighter Gina Carano as Mallory, a former Marine working as a private-contract soldier of fortune who must use her prodigious skills in order to figure out who set her up to take the fall for a murder during a...
Released:
2012
Rated:
R
Length:
n/a