It hails from the director of the Ocean’s Trilogy.
Our TV movie pick for tonight (Saturday, 1 February) is Haywire, the excellent 2011 action thriller from director Steven Soderbergh (the Ocean’s Trilogy, the currently in cinemas Presence).
The film stars former MMA artist Gina Carano as Mallory Kane, a highly trained operative for a government security contractor whose missions take her to the world’s most dangerous areas.
Not long after Mallory successfully frees a journalist being held hostage, she’s betrayed and left for dead on assignment in Dublin by someone in her own agency.
“Knowing her survival depends on learning the truth behind the double-cross, Mallory uses her black-ops training to set a trap,” the plot synopsis reads.
“But when things go awry, Mallory knows she’ll die unless she can turn the tables on her adversary.”
Surrounding Carano in Haywire is a bunch of A-list actors including Antonio Banderas, Bill Paxton, Channing Tatum, Ewan McGregor, Michael Douglas and Michael Fassbender.
Upon release, the film was renowned by critics for its supporting cast, its time-shuffling screenplay by Lem Dobbs (The Limey) and the stripped-back way Soderbergh shoots his action scenes – showcasing Carano’s physicality and stunts.
In a recent list, IndieWire called Haywire the 14th best action movie of the 21st century.
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