First review for Gina Carano’s Haywire
Haywire starring Gina Carano is Excellent! From: ferocitytv Member Since: 5/2/09 Posts: 484 Just came back from the world premiere…
Haywire starring Gina Carano is Excellent!
From: ferocitytv
Member Since: 5/2/09
Posts: 484
Just came back from the world premiere of Haywire, the Steven Soderbergh (Oceans 11, Traffic, etc.) directed feature starring Gina Carano in the lead role. The movie premiered as a surprise screening at the AFI Film Festival in Hollywood. It played to a mostly film industry crowd at a packed Graumann’s Chinese Theatre. The film was received enthusiastically by this crowd, which says a lot.
The whole film is a treat: great pacing, best fight scenes ever, a fun genre story, wonderful use of locations and very stylized cinematography, great supporting cast , and Gina is very compelling in the lead role. Overall this film is homerun for all who participated in it.
Gina carries the movie fantastically and the screening crowd gave her a rousing welcome when they held a discussion panel after the film. Her acting (face work, emotional presentation) was very good. I was quite surprised at how well she did for this being her first major role. She conveyed the subtlety of her character’s dilemma quite well through her acting.
As for the fight scenes and all the other physical scenes, chases scene, etc.? Off the chain. After seeing the film, I can say Gina, without a doubt, is the best action heroine to hit Hollywood in like…. probably ever. The fights were shot full on, no cut aways, no shakey cameras, just pure elegant brutality. She had the audience both gasping and cheering several points in the film.
Soderbergh’s cinematography (he worked the camera himself under an alias for cinematography) was wonderful, made good use of the compact nature of the Red One cameras to full advantage with so many different vantage points from roof tops, to ledges to what feels like tights spaces in basements to ceilings in bedrooms. And he framed things so beautifully usually through the vantage point of broken shards of glass. And the colorations he used on the various scenes just added to the emotional intensity of the film.
Speaking of coloration and Soderbergh’s tight control of everything he does in the cinematic world, he did seem to have colored Gina’s voice (either using some cool techie toys or using a different voice actor) to make her voice sound much older, edgier and jaded. You see this young woman on the screen with this tremendous presence showing gritty emotions coupled with the sultry whiskey voice of a 45 year old, been around the block woman.
I predict a bright future for this film and its star, Gina Carano.