Haywire

I immediately left the country after seeing this (note correlation does not imply causation) so my motivation to write a lot has fallen. As always here's the onion review if you want a plot recap.

I actually enjoyed haywire quite a bit, and liked the matter of fact manner in which it was executed. In particular the fight scenes (though not completely realistic) weren't needlessly drawn out and seemed appropriately brutal. Still at this point is does seem like Soderbergh's kind of just screwing with us. First he makes a film starring a porn star that features no sex (The girlfriend experience), then a seventies style disaster film just so he can market it around Gwenyth Paltrow dying (Contagion), and now he uses a MMA star with no acting experience to make a compelling spy thriller built entirely around her (and it works). When you next consider his next project is a fictionalized account of Channing Tatum's time spent as a male stripper, it just seems like he wants to show everyone he can do whatever he wants (and once I heard that this last project will star Matthew Mcconaughey as Tatum's mentor you know its going to great) and make it work. If it came out that he was going to make etch a sketch the movie, starring snooki, and it turned out to be entertaining I wouldn't be shocked.

So yeah, go see haywire.