If you’re curious about Steven Soderbergh’s next film Haywire and care to see the first five minutes, Hulu has you covered. It’s actually the first 4 minutes and 43 seconds, but you’ll quickly see the film starts off with a brief pause before erupting into some nasty ass-kicking. Take a look…
Now that you’ve watched the clip and I can’t ruin it with a nagging “you can never unsee” thing, I have to say I’m distressed by the amount of lip, tongue, and teeth acting going on in this video. Go ahead and watch it again… There’s also a lot of amateur hour hesitation-acting going on here, which never fails to make actors look like they’re trying real real hard to be natural. My trepidation of Tatum becoming Soderbergh’s new muse has not been assuaged.
I’ve also got beef with how this thing looks, but I’ll save that after I see the whole movie, which I have heard is quite good. The fight scene does have that nice matter-of-fact brutality that will probably work really well in a theater with good sound. I’m still pretty excited to see it, considering Soderbergh’s last effort made my top 5 of the year.
What’s your impression of the opening moments?
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To your list of reservations, I’ll add that I had really hoped we had retired the “neck-crack-signals-ass-kicking” by now. But, yeah, I remain hopeful.
This looks even more idiotic than Matthew Fox!
The more I see from this, the more hopeful I am.
I liked it,but, I agree with your problem with Tatum. I was hoping he would have come to his senses and get Chris Evans instead( or maybe Statham, admit it-it would have worked)…but I am hopeful.
My extended version DVD set of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish version) has a trailer for this movie that plays before the Root Menu. Gina Carano hurts a *lot* of people in it. As an added bonus, many of them are name actors as opposed to generic cannon fodder.
That scene was ridiculous enough. You really think seeing her taking out a credible action actor like Statham so easily would have been anything short of retarded?
Seemed fine apart from the charisma vacuum in center frame. Is he spoofing the chop socky genre aesthetic by having a lead/star who can’t actually act?
If she’d spat out the tip of her tongue after he first clocked her, at least all that tedious mouth business would have added up to something. It was an unfired gun.
Without knowing one lick about this movie save for this clip and the trailer I saw last night in front of MI4, this looks to be Soderbergh’s homage to Hong Kong B-movie action flicks. Right down to the music out of a Cynthia Rothrock film. I guess that means Gina Carano wants to be the next Cynthia Rothrock, eh?
That scene was more realistic than I thought it would be. He is completely kicking her ass and almost kills or KO’s her twice until others intervene. Makes sense given that he’s bigger, stronger, equally trained and surprises her. The only unrealistic thing is the amount of punishment she can absorb and shrug off, but that’s par for course for action heroes.
I also like that she’s a hardass but not a totally smug bitch. You know that’s how Angelina or some other bullshit femme hero would’ve played it. On the other hand, it could just be due to Carano not having enough acting ability to convey “cocky”.
I also don’t mind Tatum that much. If you’re going for a naturalistic style, he does act exactly like how many real people act. Not really the most interesting thing to watch, but it is realistic.
Not that bad an ambition. Could do with another one; someone needs to do an article about the Rothrock films, would be a fantastic read.
Give Carano a break. She does that lip chewing thing in real life.,,,and I like it. The action seems legit and not choreographed like so many movies out now.
Completely agree.
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