Haywire - Trau' keinem
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Gina Carano, Michael Douglas, Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Channing Tatum, Bill Paxton, Antonio Banderas, Michael Angarano, Mathieu Kassovitz (mehr)Streaming (4)
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Mallory Kane (Gina Carano) arbeitet als Agentin für eine private Firma, zu deren Auftraggeber auch die Regierung zählt. Eines Tages jedoch wird sie von ihrem Kollegen Aaron (Channing Tatum) in einem kleinen Restaurant angegriffen. Nur mit Mühe kann sie ihn überwältigen und flieht. Nach und nach findet die taffe Schönheit die Gründe für die Attacke heraus: Seit einem missglückten Einsatz in Barcelona ist sie selbst zum Zielobjekt geworden und ein britischer Spion (Michael Fassbender) auf sie angesetzt. Auch ihr Chef Kenneth (Ewan McGregor) ist offenbar in die mysteriöse Sache verwickelt. Mallory kann niemanden mehr trauen und versucht zu klären, wer den Auftrag zu ihrer Liquidierung gegeben hat? (ZDF)
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Haywire möchte eine Thriller-Tour mit Stil, einer coolen Hauptheldin, physischer Action und einem klugen Plot sein. Er ist aber nur ein Unsinn mit Stil, der sich selbst zu ernst nimmt. Für ein Entspannungsgenre ist der Film überflüssig zu unübersichtlich und seine Hauptheldin ist eine gewalttätige Lesbe, deren Schicksal Ihnen völlig egal ist. Ein diskutable Popkultur-Mischung.
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Soderberghseits ist dies eigentlich eine eklatant fiese Sache. Einen solch einfachen B-Movie-Mist mit solch einem derartigen erzählerischen Feingefühl, Abwägung zu drehen, jedoch gleichzeitig mit Momenten, wo sich Haywire - Trau' keinem prunkvoll zur guten alte Ära der VHS-Schätze bekennt (ikonische Aufnahmen des Gesichts der Heldin, Ende (!!!), bedeutungslose Schnitte in scharfes Hintergrundlicht usw.) . Die Vorteile des Films kommen insbesondere dann zum Vorschein, wenn man ihn in den Kontext der nervigen Mode weiblicher Agenten stellt (Salt, Colombiana) stellt - Soderbergh irritiert, beruhigt, lacht aus, bleibt im Rahmen der Absichten seines klinischen Modus, jedoch diesmal mit ein wenig Chill-Out-Geschmack (nahezu eine Art Elevator-Musik mitsamt einer ruhigen Schnittarbeit, welche dem Ganzen in der Tat den Chill-Out-Touch verleihen). Haywire - Trau' keinem wirkt dank des unsinnigen Charakters, der vollends bewusst ist, amüsant. Es ist ein Film, der wie das mögliche Entré einer B-Movie-Serie erscheint - doch für einen schlappen B-Film ist er doch zu sehr reflektierend selbstbewusst und absichtlich subversiv. Es ist eben Stevens zielgerichteter Ausreißer, eine lustige Anekdote, die leider nicht so weit reicht wie Drive und sich mit viel Nutzlosigkeit zufrieden gibt. Paradoxerweise hat mir gerade diese Törichtheit geradezu Spaß gemacht. [70%] P.S. Gina Carano hat wirklich Mum, im Tragen eines Bourjois-Kleides sowie in Raufereien.
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Deadly Is the Female. Soderbergh approached the cohabitation of a man and woman in an absolutely logical way – as an action thriller. The film’s leitmotif is the necessity of overcoming the collapse of one’s first serious relationship. Meanwhile, the female protagonist tries marriage, seen by both participants from the beginning as a game full of pretence and rather abruptly ended after the wedding night, which has the nature of a life-and-death struggle. The only man she can depend on is her father, whose brains she wants to blow out and from whom Mallory herself keeps no secrets. So, she finds certainty only in returning home, not in a fake relationship with one of her “tried and tested” partners, whom she doesn’t even know properly. ___ Unlike in “patriarchal” spy thrillers (e.g. Bond movies), the woman here is not a negative character, but actually the only positive one. She doesn’t gain men’s respect with her charm and intellect, but with her physical dominance. Though she uses her body as she would to erotically entice a man (to act as a mere decoy is beneath her level), she does so in a more energetic way. Thanks to the raw content of the elegantly filmed fight scenes (unlike Bourne-style shaky-cam filming), the feeling of physical contact is far more intense than in action movies depending exclusively on sharp editing. ___ Watching the protagonist’s body in motion is doubly pleasurable for male viewers, as her repeated displays of control over the situation (rather than the camera’s control over her body) mitigates the feeling of voyeuristic guilt. Here, a beautiful woman does not appear as an object of leering gazes, but as a goal- and action-oriented person who takes greater initiative even in the matter of sex. ___ During the first two-thirds of the film, Mallory’s dominance over the image is further multiplied by the fact that this involves the retelling of previous events through her flashbacks. We are provocatively and repeatedly made aware that she is steering her narrative to a particular character who is basically unimportant for the story. Our “eye”, represented by the camera in the diegesis, is not even allowed into the car in which the protagonist summarises her history. (This lends itself also to the interpretation that the terrified young man represents the typical action-movie viewer, whom Soderbergh is somewhat making fun of – that’s why, for example, Mallory constantly repeats important names, just as crucial information is repeated in Hollywood action flicks.) ___ The revealing of moments when Haywire uses the stripped-down action plot for the purpose of supra-genre commentary does not comprise the film’s essence, but its value added. At its core, it is a brisk, though dramaturgically loose female variation on Bourne movies, or rather (given the B-movie subject matter) Commando, in which an emerging action star crushes his (for the moment) more famous acting colleagues between his thighs on various continents and nothing can stop us from savouring the action in and of itself. Chuck Norris may know how to divide by zero and Bond’s double-o gives him a license to kill, but Gina Carano would nullify both of them before they could utter the word “shit”. 80%
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Soderbergh goes against expectations once more - although that was actually expected - and offers a simple fable in which the plot comes last. The schematics of the director's rendition of the secret agents and even more secret leaders evoke in me a mockery of the rules of the genre rather than its adoration. I'm no film scholar, so I don't have to do any digging into it. I was entertained by the clear action scenes, dominated by Gina Carano's physical abilities, and Soderbergh's unorthodox approach. So when Holmes' bizarre music plays during the hostage liberation scene, which evokes cheap spy themes, I sank into my seat and rode on a fully positive wave until the end. PS: I'd damn well change places with Fassbender in the leg choke scene.
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Gina Carano definitely had a “haywire” moment in this movie, and honestly, I think I experienced a mental glitch while watching it too. Gina is fantastic—I don’t think I’ve seen a tougher woman on screen who can kick ass from start to finish so flawlessly. Not just kick, but she runs, fights, and moves with such grace. She’s the main reason I started—and finished—the movie. That said, the film has an artsy vibe. Soderbergh doesn’t handle action in the typical explosive way, but instead with these minimalistic, almost static scenes where Gina just wrecks people. The subtle soundtrack felt more fitting for something low-key than a high-octane action flick. At times, it reminded me of The American with Clooney, but The American had a stronger story and made better use of its setting. Most of Haywire takes place in Dublin, and honestly, if I didn’t know that, I wouldn’t have guessed. It was a bit of a letdown in that sense, but Gina carried the 93 minutes with ease, and that’s what kept me entertained.
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