It was another double bill this week and the first film we saw was “Haywire” with Gina Carano [Mallory], Antonio Banderas [Rodrigo], Michael Douglas [Coblenz], Ewan McGregor [Kenneth], Channing Tatum [Aaron] and Michael Fassbender [Paul].
The film starts with Mallory, an agent for a contractor of private covert operations firm run by Kenneth, being approached by Aaron who wished to bring her back to Kenneth. She refuses and they fight, pretty brutally I may say, with Mallory getting the better of Aaron and managing to escape in a young chap’s car [Scott]. She takes Scott with her and tells him what has happened to her in the last week. They have a very exciting road trip!
It transpires that Mallory had a relationship with her employer, Kenneth, but was leaving him and the firm. However, he persuaded her to carry out a job in Barcelona to rescue someone who was being held hostage. She was accompanied on that mission with Aaron and Rodrigo. She was then asked to carry out another job in Dublin posing as Paul’s wife (another agent). She is told it’s an easy job and will be just like a holiday. However it transpires that Paul’s mission is to kill her.
Well, Mallory is no pushover! She suspects something is up when she discovers the hostage she had just rescued from Barcelona, dead in a barn, with her brooch in his hand. After Mallory finishes off Paul, his phone rings. She answers but doesn’t say anything – Kenneth asks if Paul has “divorced” Mallory.
Realising Kenneth is behind trying to dispose of her, she is now on a mission.
It’s all very fast paced, and I do confess to being confused at times. There’s lots of violence, but it’s not badly done. Quite a good film in my opinion.
