History Film / Haywire

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 Bill Paxton as her father.

Directed by 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.

* GasMaskMooks: 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.]]

* RoofHopping: Mallory does some of this to escape a SWAT team in Dublin. Played with a little, as she ends up taking a hard fall.

Mallory Kane ({{Gina Carano}}), 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.

Mallory Kane (Gina Carano), 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.

* TrashTheSet: The hotel-room fight manages to break just about everything in the room exept the sofa. Which still gets knocked over.

* ConspicuousCG: The deer.
* DevelopmentHell: The film was originally set to open around Christmas 2010 but reshoots and a distributor change (from Lionsgate to Relativity) delayed it more than a year. In the process, Steven Soderbergh shot ''{{Contagion}}'' and it beat this film to theaters by four months.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The original cut of the film was more brutal and had most of the fight scenes be of the CurbStompBattle kind. Reshoots (done a year and a half after the original shoot) made those scenes more even-handed. Also, Gina Carano's voice was dubbed in the final cut.

* StarMakingRole: The movie itself had mixed reviews and Gina's acting was poked at from all angles, but nearly everyone agreed that she ''owned'' the stunts and action scenes and she has since become symbolic of the term ActionGirl.

* FBIGoodCIABad: Inverted, somewhat. Michael Douglas' CIA character is portrayed as helpful towards Mallory if not outright fixing things. On the other hand, Kenneth's PMC goons impersonate FBI agents at one point.

* ActionGirl: Mallory Kane, naturally.

* [[OhCrap Oh Shit]]: [[spoiler: Rodrigo's line at the end of the film when Mallory drops in on him.]]

* SequelHook: Malory is offered to work directly for the US Government in exchange for information from Michael Douglas' character.

* WouldHitAGirl: Everyone. Justified, since she's completly capable of beating them up in return

!!Contains examples of:

* CombatStilettos: Refreshingly 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]].

* DevelopmentHell: The film was originally set to open around Christmas 2010 but reshoots and a distributor change (from Lionsgate to Relativity) delayed it more than a year. In the process, Steven Soderbergh shot ''{{Contagion}}'' and it beat this film to theatres by four months.

* InDublinsFairCity: The setting for most of the film.

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Studer, but Mallory probably deals with him]]

Directed by StevenSoderbergh in his realistic mode, the film was well-received by critics but critically 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.

Directed by StevenSoderbergh in his realistic mode, the film was well-received by critics but critically panned by general cinema-goers. It's a spare, fast-moving action movie with no extra fat, realistic explosions and gunplay, and brutally convincing fight scenes, Carano excelling at her own stunts. 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.

Contains examples of:

* QuieterThanSilence: You will become ''painfully'' aware of what footsteps and clinking cups sound like watching this film.

** Averted. A mercenary is found shot in the head in a basement, his brains and skull pieces splattered all over the hood of a nearby car. This is actually the result of an IED Mallory plants in the breaker box.

* ActionStilettos: Refreshingly 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]].

* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Averted. A mercenary is found shot in the head in a basement, his brains and skull pieces splattered all over the hood of a nearby car.

* ImpovisedWeapon: Hot coffee, a ketchup bottle, a fork, the coffee pot...and that's in the first fight. It's about what you'd expect, given the entire cast being [[CombatPragmatist]]s.

* BadassBystander: In the diner fight, a male bystander wrestles Aaron away from Mallory, and seconds later the waitress smashes a coffe pot over Aaron's head.
* CombatPragmatist: ''Everyone''. Aaron opens the diner fight by throwing hot coffe 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.]]

* ImpovisedWeapon: Hot coffe, a ketchup bottle, a fork, the coffee pot...and that's in the first fight. It's about what you'd expect, given the entire cast being [[CombatPragmatist]]s.