Haywire: spy thriller doesn’t quite thrill [MOVIE REVIEW]
Gina Carano and Ewan McGregor star in Relativity Media's Haywire. Photo by Claudette Barius/Five Continents Imports There is a thin line between a hit and a miss, and sometimes within the same film you’ll get both. Such is the case with “Haywire,” Stephen Soderbergh’s attempt at making a spy thriller. I say attempt because he doesn’t quite succeed. Mallory Kane, a “contractor” with a private “agency” was hired to extract a Chinese dissident from his captors in Barcelona. Working with a small but elite team, she succeeds and turns him over to her contact. Relieved to be home and contemplating a change of employers, her boss and former lover, Kenneth, exhorts her to take one quick job, practically a vacation as he tells her, as a personal favor. Against her better judgment, she agrees and that is where things go very wrong and the bodies begin to pile up, all pointing in her direction. Who is friend, who is foe? Who is dirty, who is clean? Who is duped and who is savvy? It’s all necessarily confusing. What is also confusing is what this film is supposed to be. Is it a violent, action-packed thriller about betrayal? Certainly there is enough action, although despite the well…
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