History Film / Haywire

* RealityEnsues: More or less the whole film runs on playing spy thriller as close to the ground as possible.

* HowWeGotHere: The film starts a little bit more than halfway through the story for the opening diner fight, then spells out what lead to this encounter.

* CombatPragmatist: ''Everyone''. Aaron opens the diner fight by throwing hot coffee in Mallory's face and instantly follows that with a ketchup bottle to the head, and the rest of the fights are similar. The hotel-room fight begins when [[spoiler: Paul hits Mallory from the rear, knocking her down.]]

Carano is a former MMA fighter, and her background makes her a natural choice for the ass-kicking, hardcase Mallory. Her star-studded supporting cast includes Creator/EwanMcGregor, Creator/MichaelFassbender, Creator/MichaelDouglas, Creator/AntonioBanderas, and Creator/BillPaxton as her father.

* ActionGirl: Mallory, of course. The movie is notable for being a relatively mainstream gritty action flick with a female lead in the style of [[Film/TheBourneSeries Bourne]] (as opposed to SheFu or BulletTime style action girls).

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: {{Deconstructed}}. Mallory remains beautiful and well-kept throughout the movie, but to achieve that she is shown applying full-face makeup (To cover bruises) and tidying her hair in order to maintain that look and avoid suspicion in public.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Kenneth's leg gets accidently jammed between two rocks on a deserted beach. Mallory leaves him there with the incoming tide]].
* DiabolusExMachina: Don't worry, she's escaped the cops with clever drivi[[spoiler: '''DEER!''']]

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Rare justified case. Mallory wants to get informations from [[spoiler: Kenneth]], so shooting him InTheBack would gain her nothing.

* CaliforniaDoubling: New York State is played by New Mexico (averted elsewhere in the film, with shooting in Ireland and Spain).

* LoopingLines: There was a greater-than-normal amount of post-production work on Gina Carano's performance because of her own admitted shortcomings as an actor, with a lot of dialogue computer-edited and re-recorded.

* SheCleansUpNicely: Despite tomboy Mallory's protests to Kenneth that "I don't wear the dress," her cocktail-party outfit makes her quite the looker..

* MookHorrorShow: The fight in Mallory's house. The lights are off, she grew up here, and the villains split up.

Directed by Creator/StevenSoderbergh in his realistic mode, the film was well-received by critics but panned by general cinema-goers. It is a sparse, fast-moving action movie with no extra fat, realistic explosions and gunplay, and brutally convincing fight scenes, Carano excelling at her own stunts (and... competent in her acting). However, it has also been criticized for a convoluted plot, failure to wrap up several loose ends and some unnecessarily long, silent shots of doorways and such.

* ProperlyParanoid: Mal doesn't trust Paul from the very beginning, starting with bugging his phone and ending with [[spoiler taking her high heels off right when she was sure of incoming attack]].

* CoupDeGrace: [[spoiler: After thoroughly defeating Paul and beating him senseless, Mallory executes the man with a gunshot to the head.]]

* SameLanguageDub: There was a lot of post-production work done for Gina Carano's performance due to her own admitted shortcomings as an actor. In addition to a lot of LoopingLines, there was some out-and-out dubbing of Mallory's dialogue.

Mallory Kane (Creator/GinaCarano), a PrivateMilitaryContractor who does wetwork for the CIA, is betrayed by her employer after a hostage rescue mission in Barcelona. She must then set out to find out why she was betrayed and take revenge on everyone involved.

Carano is a former MMA fighter with a 7-1 win-loss record, primarily in Elite eXtreme Cagefighting. Her background makes her a natural choice for the ass-kicking, hardcase Mallory. Her star-studded supporting cast includes Creator/EwanMcGregor, Creator/MichaelFassbender, Creator/MichaelDouglas, Creator/AntonioBanderas, and Creator/BillPaxton as her father.

Directed by Creator/StevenSoderbergh in his realistic mode, the film was well-received by critics but panned by general cinema-goers. It's a sparse, fast-moving action movie with no extra fat, realistic explosions and gunplay, and brutally convincing fight scenes, Carano excelling at her own stunts (and... competent in her acting). However, it has also been criticized for a barely-coherent plot, failure to wrap up several loose ends and some unnecessarily long, silent shots of doorways and such.

* ActionGirl: Mallory, of course. The movie is very notable for being a relatively mainstream gritty action flick with a female lead in the style of [[Film/TheBourneSeries Bourne]] (as opposed to SheFu or BulletTime style action girls).

* AnachronicOrder

* CoupDeGrace: [[spoiler: after thoroughly defeating Paul and beating him senseless, rather than immediately make her escape, Mallory proceeds to execute the man with a gunshot to the head.]]

* UsefulNotes/{{Dublin}}: The setting for most of the film.

* GasMaskMooks[=/=]SWATTeam: The Garda Síochána Emergency Response Unit. They aren't actually ''villains'' per se - just police officers who have been wrongly informed Mallory is a murderer - but they perform this role and the FacelessGoons rule is definitely in effect. When faced with ''un''masked cops later in the film Mallory [[spoiler: surrenders peacefully.]]
* HollywoodSilencer: Averted. Mallory uses a pillow in front of the muzzle when she shoots [[spoiler: Paul]] but it doesn't make the shot any quieter. It may have been simply to avoid blood/brain splatters.
* IdiotBall: Kenneth simply does not let go. You'd expect a man in his profession to know a little more than he apparently does when it comes to, say, how to kill a single woman in an exposed cop car in the middle of nowhere, or whether it's a good idea to [[spoiler: wander around on a remote beach all alone when you know there's a trained killer after you]], or even how to [[spoiler: '''run without getting your foot stuck in a rock''']].
** Also, when he finds out that Mallory is in the house- ''which she grew up in''- with him and his team, he orders them to search for her. Results in a MookHorrorShow.

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Studer, but Mallory probably deals with him.]]
* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: The hotel room fight scene.
* LargeHam: Among skillfully understated performances, Antonio Banderas stands out with his true-to-form overdramatic Spanish accent. This is by no means a bad thing.

* MookHorrorShow: The fight in Mallory's house. The lights are off, she grew up here, and the villains split up. TooDumbToLive.

* SheCleansUpNicely: Despite tomboy Mallory's protests to Kenneth that "I don't wear the dress," her cocktail-party outfit makes her quite the looker.
* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler: It's left vague but it is established that Mallory and Aaron had a thing going]].

Carano is a former MMA fighter with a 7-1 win-loss record, primarily in Elite eXtreme Cagefighting. Her background makes her a natural choice for the ass-kicking, hardcase Mallory. Her star-studded supporting cast includes EwanMcGregor, MichaelFassbender, MichaelDouglas, AntonioBanderas, and Creator/BillPaxton as her father.

* CombatStilettos: Averted, (along with ActionDressRip, {{Stripperific}} and other similar tropes) Mallorie takes off her high heels right before going into the hotel room, knowing that [[spoiler:Paul was going to attempt to kill her]].

* AllStarCast: Gina is the only non-name actor in the cast.