Girl Delivers Beat-Down
Jan. 21st, 2012 10:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Hi,
So tonight, after some quick shoveling, I went to see the new movie Haywire with...
invader_haywire.
Short story, Mallory works for a private security firm. One of her jobs goes pear-shaped and she gets the blame. Now she has to fight everyone to find out what's going on, who betrayed her and how to set things right.
Mallory is played by Gina Carano who did women's MMA for a while. So the fight scenes aren't some beautifully choreographed Hong Kong deal, they're vicious, brutal things, but with the MMA element, you've got lots of locks and holds and fewer punches. The fights are pretty short and no one looks prettier at the end than when they started.
The plot basically moves Mallory from one fight scene to the next but there's a lot of good actors up there who really enjoy being in a spy/revenge flick. There's also a fair amount of humor isn't too over-the-top, but just a nice contrast every now and again.
Although this has a tough woman being tough, she's tough of her own choice (no traumatic origin story). The movie utterly fails the Bechel test. Actually, I guess she talks to a shopkeeper about a new mobile phone at one point but that's two lines of dialog at best. For the most part, Mallory is the only woman in the movie. So...baby steps I guess.
But like I say, if you like watching strong women kick the crap out of some big-name actors, this is a fun popcorn movie.
later
Tom
So tonight, after some quick shoveling, I went to see the new movie Haywire with...
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Short story, Mallory works for a private security firm. One of her jobs goes pear-shaped and she gets the blame. Now she has to fight everyone to find out what's going on, who betrayed her and how to set things right.
Mallory is played by Gina Carano who did women's MMA for a while. So the fight scenes aren't some beautifully choreographed Hong Kong deal, they're vicious, brutal things, but with the MMA element, you've got lots of locks and holds and fewer punches. The fights are pretty short and no one looks prettier at the end than when they started.
The plot basically moves Mallory from one fight scene to the next but there's a lot of good actors up there who really enjoy being in a spy/revenge flick. There's also a fair amount of humor isn't too over-the-top, but just a nice contrast every now and again.
Although this has a tough woman being tough, she's tough of her own choice (no traumatic origin story). The movie utterly fails the Bechel test. Actually, I guess she talks to a shopkeeper about a new mobile phone at one point but that's two lines of dialog at best. For the most part, Mallory is the only woman in the movie. So...baby steps I guess.
But like I say, if you like watching strong women kick the crap out of some big-name actors, this is a fun popcorn movie.
later
Tom
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