"While it’s easy to forgive the less-than-stellar chops of many an action star, female or male, Haywire is hobbled by Carano’s inadequacy. There’s no cushioning for it, because Gina Carano (or rather her character, Mallory Kane) lives in Soderberghland, where everything looks really cool but is also brittle and inert, frustratingly removed. At times Haywire feels like we’re watching a rehearsal, a reasonably well-done rehearsal for sure, but a rehearsal nonetheless."