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    Movie Review: Haywire

    By Steve Gow | Metro – Thu, 19 Jan, 2012

    Haywire

    • Genre: Action

    • Director: Steven Soderbergh

    • Stars: Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor

    • Rage: ****


    Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh reunites with The Limey writer Lem Dobbs to create Haywire — what will surely go down as one of 2012’s best action films (and yes, I know it’s only January).  The Ocean’s Eleven director brilliantly cast MMA fighter Gina Carano as a mysterious covert operative that seeks vengeance and truth after she is double-crossed on a job. While the story is simple enough, it’s clearly Carano is performing her own incredible fight scenes, which keeps the kettle boiling in this stylish, entertaining thriller.

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