At first, an action movie by Steven Soderbergh sounds like a cash-in: an easy film he makes between films. Then you watch the first few minutes of Haywire, and as you sit completely blown away by the freshness with which this genre is tackled, you realize just why Soderbergh wanted to make this movie. He wanted to make a well-crafted action film that showed emphatically, that Hollywood gloss is not the only way to make an action movie.
Smartly directed, lovingly shot, and beautifully scored, Haywire is hard to find fault with as action films go. The dialogue scenes are rife with....