Haywire was a very cool and very stylish action flick with its tone and style being very reminiscent of some of the early James Bond from the 1960's like Dr. No, From Russia with Love and On Her Majesty's Secret Service which had Bond stripped of all the gadgets and had him rely more on his wits and training to get the job done and that's the case here, especially in the action scenes which are really well done, there's very little that underscores them but you really feel the blows and bone crunching in them which is really cool to watch.
The film also has a great cast of male actors with Bill Paxton, Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender, Michael "Gordon Gekko" Douglas, Antonio Banderas and Channing Tatum, all of those mentioned are very effective in their roles with a smile going on my face when Douglas came on screen and Tatum surprisingly good though the stand out once more is Fassbender and his role reminded me a lot of when Timothy Dalton played Bond in the Living Daylights and Licence to Kill, let's hope he's considered for Bond when Daniel Craig moves on from the role.
If there is a downside to this movie its that the plot doesn't quite come together as neatly as it should and there are times where you do get a little confused as to who's who, what's what and how its all going down but by the end of the film those little niggles are nicely dealt with so I guess its not that big of a problem.
And so shouldn't it, this is a very good and very well made spy flick and I hope to see more of Carano in the future, she's really a nice surprise and very effective in front of a camera, 3 out of 5.
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