Haywire, the latest film from director Steven Soderbergh, uses the familiar framework of a spy going rogue to showcase the fighting/acting skills of Gina Carano, a professional Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter who quickly proves that she’s more than a gimmick with a pretty face, killer body and awesome fighting movies. She can act, too. Granted, playing a character like the spy Mallory in Haywire doesn’t make a lot of demands on her fledgling thespian skills, but that’s fine: all what audience watching Haywire needs from her is that she make Mallory believable, whether she’s arguing with her shady boss Kenneth (Ewan McGregor) or kicking his ass. Carano does it with style and, a rarity for this kind of movie, substance.
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