One thing is for sure, Steven Soderbergh loves Channing Tatum. The dude has appeared in the director’s last three films. Last year they teamed up for the ploddingly slow “Haywire” and the goofy, male stripper, after school special “Magic Mike”. This time around, Tatum gets to keep his clothes on and the result is a smart and suspenseful thriller that will keep you guessing right up until the film’s final moments. That is, of course, assuming you can keep up with the convoluted and diabolically twisted plot.
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‘Haywire’ (2011) movie review
Steven Soderbergh has made some of my favorite guilty pleasure movies in the last ten to fifteen years. I love “Out of Sight”, “The Limey”, “Traffic” and “Solaris”– even the “Ocean’s” movies were at least, for the most part, solid entertainment. Lately though, it’s starting to seem more and more like Soderbergh may have completely lost his mind. “Magic Mike” was awful. “Contagion” was — okay. I went back and watched “Haywire” and it’s just another gimmick movie that is completely void of everything that made some of his early work so great.