Following her loss to the wrecking machine that is Cristiane Santos, Gina Carano quietly walked away from the sport of MMA. It turns out that though she was all but retired, she was staying busy with the filming of the Steven Soderbergh spy-thriller "Haywire". Carano was cast in the leading role as the film's protagonist, a CIA operative cut loose from the company.
The movie's release was pushed back multiple times before settling into January 20th as the official release date. This usually is the kiss of death for a blockbuster that was originally intended for a summer release. The fine folks at Relativity Media have decided to release the first five minutes of the movie where Carano and Channing Tatum fight in a roadside diner.
The official plot via wikipedia:
Freelance covert operative Mallory Kane (Carano) is hired out by her handler to various global entities to perform jobs that governments can't authorize and heads of state would rather not know about. After a mission to rescue a hostage in Barcelona, Mallory is quickly dispatched on another mission to Dublin. When the operation goes awry and Mallory finds she has been double crossed, she needs to use all of her skills, tricks, and abilities to escape an international manhunt, make it back to the United States, protect her family, and exact revenge on those that have betrayed her.
Video after the jump...
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7.9 on IMDB.
mma.ly - January 10, 2012
But only 311 users so far.
I think as soon as a movie skipsthe 1.000 mark you can do something with the score. But I’ll never trust only imdb when you look at stuff like Avatar being one of the best movies ever based on the user scores. ^^
killphil - January 10, 2012
So true, def have to wait till there are enough votes.
I live and die by IMDB ratings, and Amazon ratings for everything else.
mma.ly - January 10, 2012
IMDB seems to be getting less accurate by the years...
I try to look at both it and rottentomatoes.com though.
Zachary Kater - January 11, 2012
Up until the fight sequence at 3:20, it was uncomfortable with the lip biting and trying-to-be-sexy facial tics.
Looks like it’ll be pretty good though.
Skoobs - January 10, 2012
I'm pro lip biting, but that scene could've move a little quicker (not a Channing Tatum fan)
The fight scene looked slick as hell though
Ziggy325 - January 10, 2012
nothing about that looked slick.
that short clip made me hate movies.
El Pablo Diablo - January 10, 2012
kinda like how your posts make me hate the internet.
Rob Young - January 10, 2012
Boo-ya!!
Stuart Scott says, “Bring the pain!”
glib_mf - January 10, 2012
Channing Tatum fans exist?
discoandherpes - January 10, 2012
I'm come to be at peace with him and his level of acting
I just accept that any role he plays is that of a big alpha-looking dude that is dumb as bricks anyways so in that regard, he pulls it off.
Rob Young - January 10, 2012
i think he typecast himself
I’m a fan of Channing Tatum movies, not necessarily the actor himself but he finds himself in decent roles. I don’t get the hate….maybe because people are jelly?
Cindjor - January 10, 2012
yes with women they do he’s a sexy SOB but thats not what i want in my films i want obesity and drama and great lines and dialogue because im a indie movie whore and i need my fix of nerdy films that dont make sense until your high
Mac Marley - January 10, 2012
Channing Tatum is to movies
What cancer is to cancer patients.
discoandherpes - January 11, 2012
Yeah, god forbid a movie has smart dialogue and a semblance of an actual plot
ElliotMatheny - January 11, 2012
You know you’re a bad actor when Channing Tatum out-plays you…
Shnak - January 10, 2012
That felt really uncomfortable
nsiegel - January 10, 2012
I'll see it.
I think I’m being extra critical about it because it’s Gina but I still think it will be watchable.
KatGirl - January 10, 2012
looks like a flying peice of poo
i’ll probly like it
Bonedoctor - January 10, 2012
What is this CIA company you speak of?
azruavatar - January 10, 2012
I will wait til it's on TBS 6 times per week.
IKiIIed007 - January 10, 2012
yup.
El Pablo Diablo - January 10, 2012
I just skipped to the fight. 3:05 for those who don't care about the beginning.
I don’t think I missed anything important. :)
pud333 - January 10, 2012
Pet peeve. Why did she rack the slide after the gun had already been shot?
thirdparty - January 10, 2012
because its a horrible movie.
El Pablo Diablo - January 10, 2012
yeah, soderbergh is such a hack
Rob Young - January 10, 2012
didnt say a thing about the director.
just the movie. and gina. both are terrible here.
El Pablo Diablo - January 10, 2012
What exactly is so terrible about this opening scene though?
I’m not understanding your outrage here. We have a woman entering a restaurant, waiting to rendezvous with a handler who’s trying to bring her back in to be dealt with, she doesn’t want to leave and the handler pulls a cool trick with the whole coffee setup to catch her off guard, tries to beat her up and it backfires on him. It’s not like the dialog is badly written or anything either and Soderbergh does a good job of building up the tension.
I could understand if you’ve seen the entire movie and it gets worse as it progresses or something that you could be so confident of it being a bad movie, but there is no way of knowing that just from this clip. To say so like it’s just a matter of fact is pretty ignorant.
Rob Young - January 10, 2012
MMA fans make crappy film critics.
I thought tatum looked pretty shitty, but gina looked alright.
lolumad - January 10, 2012
dont worry el pd obvisously wants to have man on man relations with channing and is upset ginas messing up all his quality time its the bachelor all over again! why am i not getting a rose Spencer!?!?! because pablo your attitude sucks and its people like you that kid nate loves to ban so i cant wait til he sends him to mma purgatory aka mma mania aka not the place jon fitch crys at night
Mac Marley - January 10, 2012
and news flash pablo licking on your tits is sick and its a sin and chael sonnen wont allow it in his murrrrrica boy!
Mac Marley - January 10, 2012
mistake #1 for imbd trivia
Bigbub - January 10, 2012
Either a stoppage or she wanted to make sure that there was a round loaded.
Ubernoober - January 11, 2012
holy crap that was aweful.
so much worse than I’d have thought based on the trailer. and children in a middle school play can act better than Gina, my god. even the fight scene was weak as hell. you couldnt pay ME to watch that. Ill wait til netflix, then suffer through it, but probably turn it off half way through.
I really cant believe there are people here who thought that looked good in any way, shape, or form. may god have mercy on your souls.
El Pablo Diablo - January 10, 2012
Damon O. - January 10, 2012
mad, as in, angry at watching the horrendous clip?
or mad, as in, im crazy to think its so god aweful. because i really struggle to believe anyone thought that looked good. and thats coming from someone who thought “arena” was pretty cool. so my bar is not that high.
El Pablo Diablo - January 10, 2012
Damon O. - January 10, 2012
hahahahaha
well done
El Pablo Diablo - January 10, 2012
Cindjor - January 10, 2012
lolumad - January 10, 2012
You spelled awful wrong dude, and I bet you liked transformers.
lolumad - January 10, 2012
i like transformers 1,2 and 3
and Haywire looks like a decent movie.
Cindjor - January 10, 2012
get a grip! get a life and calm the fuck down!
CDSmid - January 11, 2012
hmmm her voice sounds different, maybe the rumors are true...
http://www.tmz.com/2012/01/10/gina-carano-haywire-voice-dubbed/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter#.Twy1ofntE-V
darkotto23 - January 10, 2012
Completely true for this scene
Her voice is much deeper and reverberates in her chest (ba dum bum) whereas that was all kinds of nasally.
I was really looking forward to this, but there’s no way I can watch a movie where the main character (the only one I’m coming to see) is dubbed. Pet peeve of mine.
asa - January 10, 2012
if i remember correctly the same thing happened to Randy when he filmed the Scorpion King sequel
what is it with MMA fighters getting dubbed in movies?
darkotto23 - January 10, 2012
i got something that will "reverberate" in her chest.
ba dum dum, ching!
El Pablo Diablo - January 10, 2012
Yeah after seeing quite a few interviews with Gina I don’t see how she can get that tone from her voice. Her voice just doesn’t go that low.
Rob Young - January 10, 2012
acting vs normal conversation
can be a big difference, maybe because she was nervous during the walking down the street because she didn’t seem “as confident” and i’ve read elsewhere on BE that she’s not the attention confident type. But in the movie clip it’s more…serious so her voice can drop a bit and post production might have tweaked her voice.
kind of like autotune? no idea.
Cindjor - January 10, 2012
My fave vid of Gina taking off her clothes to weigh in vs Cyborg
http://dwizzlesworld.blogspot.com/2012/01/sexy-gina-carano-of-haywire-stripping.html
Mama Mia!!!! That is the sexiest striptease ever. I wish she would weigh in now. I say she is over 155 lol. THickness
I hope the movie sucks though so she can fight MMA again. if not, she wll do another movie and retire
thuglife - January 10, 2012
she healthy looking
dat thickness
Cindjor - January 10, 2012
Damon O. - January 10, 2012
the older brother has just gotten to learn and live with the fact that his little brother is probably going to annoy him with horrible music and really ugly womens clothes
Mac Marley - January 10, 2012
man hands!
she got some man hands holdin that coffee cup!
Bigbub - January 10, 2012
I wouldn't mind
having those man hands wrapped around my cup of coffee
WanderChe - January 10, 2012
or my penis
TheCode - January 10, 2012
Monotone voice: You got a car? Slightly more intense monotone voice: You got a car?!
pud333 - January 10, 2012
it ain’t Kurosawa, but i will watch it only to see her kick some ass
phantom5691 - January 10, 2012
Now that I've gotten a chance to see it...this is so bad
so fucking bad.
Matthew Roth - January 10, 2012
The whole thing?
Any chance you write a review?
Firm1 - January 10, 2012
No..I didn't watch the clip when I posted it
now that I have this is awful.
Matthew Roth - January 10, 2012
you see the light.
this is an abomination of a movie.
El Pablo Diablo - January 10, 2012
Says the family guy fan…
lolumad - January 10, 2012
Family Guy is funny
And the first few seasons before it got cancelled the first time are legendary
Farthammer - January 10, 2012
you know it!
El Pablo Diablo - January 11, 2012
i willfully admit that my bar isnt very high
but that makes this movie even worse. If I can watch a movie like “night at the roxbury” and enjoy it, what does that say about Gina’s acting? its just aweful.
El Pablo Diablo - January 11, 2012
it is missing Kung Fu sound effects...and a lot more LOL
higgledy-piggledy - January 10, 2012
Ease up
She is a total amateur in the world of acting. They cast her for a main role in a feature film, she must of done something right. It’s great for the sport of MMA, it will bring a lot of attention. I personally thought she was better than Tatum in that scene.
CRWHITLOCK - January 10, 2012
Bring a lot of attention to what exactly?
discoandherpes - January 11, 2012
I'm surprised that so many people already mad up their mind thinking this flick is going to be D-grade direct-to-video quality trash.
Not only is it directed by Stephen Soderbergh, it’s written by Lem Dobbs who also wrote The Limey and Dark City and stars a fuckload of awesome actors in it like Michael Fassbender, Michael Douglas, Ewan McGregor and Antonio Banderas among others. Also, it screened at the AFI Fest a few months ago here in LA and got some quite positive reactions from the film blogosphere and has people like Jeffrey Wells who is a complete film snob who usually turns up his nose at anything resembling lowest common denominator-pandering “popcorn” movies singing its praises.
Rob Young - January 10, 2012
it looks like typical hollywood stuff
not that it means it’s bad, I’d watch this movie and I’m sure my friends would enjoy it. I don’t get the hate either but why can’t Gina Carano have pulled off that armbar when she was in mount against Cyborg? ahahaha
Cindjor - January 10, 2012
What some people who have seen it have said is that they appreciate the fight scenes having wide, sustained shots rather than what usually happens in the “typical hollywood stuff” you’re referring to where they do to many quick cuts with close shots so that it’s a bit tougher to see what is going on. So that is one way that it isn’t “typical hollywood stuff” and Soderbergh has never really been a “typical hollywood” director in the way he makes his movies.
It’s funny because I rarely ever see the “typical hollywood” epithet leveled at obvious assembly line-style movies like “We Bought A Zoo” and the like, it always seems to come from people when they’re talking about a movie that gets made outside the “Hollywood” big studio system or by an auteur type of filmmaker who has lots of creative control over it. And I usually laugh at the unintentional irony.
This movie was not bankrolled by one of the big studios, it was produced by Relativity which is more of an upstart company that goes for the more creative stuff.
Rob Young - January 10, 2012
good to know.
I’ll definitely watch for the fight scenes then. I meant typical hollywood stuff as in the whole spy thriller that has been coming out since James Bond, Bourne Identity and Mission impossible. it doesn’t look horrible and it doesn’t look bad.
I’m a huge fan of HK action films for the fight scenes because of the sustained wide shots, instead of the quick cuts so you can’t see what’s going on.
Cindjor - January 10, 2012
Haywire is sitting at 100% so far on rottentomatoes.com, the critics are liking it.
Only 6 reviews so far, but they’ve been quite positive.
lolumad - January 10, 2012
No "top critics" yet though.
Zachary Kater - January 11, 2012
two, actually
lolumad - January 11, 2012
holy shit snacks!
that was painful
jaybot - January 10, 2012
Is it weird that I started laughing as soon as Gina was on screen?
This movie has such a strong “cheesy action flick” vibe, I almost expected the guy in the black coat to be Steven Seagal.
crazybones - January 10, 2012
I actually didn't think she was bad, I'm surprised people are trying to convince themselves she/the movie is going to suck.
lolumad - January 10, 2012
Yeah it’s kind of bizarre. loltheymad I think.
Rob Young - January 10, 2012
These are the sort of people who got mad when Drive didn’t end up being the next Fast & Furious.
lolumad - January 10, 2012
ugh yes.. LOVED that movie too.
Rob Young - January 10, 2012
Some woman actually tried to sue a movie theater for that reason.
Lolshemad.
lolumad - January 10, 2012
Drive was amazing.
thirdparty - January 10, 2012
I wanted to like Drive
and there are elements to it that are fantastic, but Drive is one of those movies that like Juno, seems to get the attention of critics who somehow miss what makes them either flawed, or just shit.
There’s a difference between quiet and obtuse, and Drive drowns in the latter. I guess once you accept the fact that Gosling’s character is a psychotic, and socially impaired, the movie becomes acceptable, but I wasn’t a big fan of the long awkward silences only broken by the sometimes odd choice of music (hearing the Social Network score was really distracting). Albert Brooks was great though.
David Castillo - January 10, 2012
those very things that you mention as being flaws
are exactly why others love it. I’m not sure what part you heard Social Network music in though.
Rob Young - January 10, 2012
I can see how the long silences might be off-putting to some, but they made the movie for me. Gosling’s character had so few lines of dialogue that he seemed borderline autistic, but was somehow much more engaging than his co-stars.
I also loved the 80’s style synth-pop.
lolumad - January 10, 2012
The Reznor/Ross
score plays when Gosling’s character meets the girl at the cafe where she works, and when he’s with the three eating dinner.
I really enjoy parts of the film, but like most of Refn’s work, it’s a mixed bag for me.
David Castillo - January 11, 2012
Valhalla Rising was so slow and awful. Drive was much better paced albeit also unnecessarily slow at times.
nastyem - January 11, 2012
I can see how people wouldn’t care for it, but it was right up my alley. Slow pace doesn’t really bother me, because I got a sense of intensity from it. Just me, though.
thirdparty - January 11, 2012
agreed. sensing a lot of forced criticism here
nastyem - January 10, 2012
this^
maybe they just want Carano to not have a movie career so she can revive the WMMA 145lb division?
Cindjor - January 10, 2012
Come on, guys, it wasn’t THAT bad. It doesn’t look like a masterpiece, but it seems to not be the steaming pile of dump that some of these comments would suggest.
thirdparty - January 10, 2012
Well, the actual violence feels the part.
Rundownloser - January 10, 2012
Probably 50+ people on the set that day and no one thought to mention that a scolding hot cup of coffee to the face/eyes would do way more damage than depicted here.
Chaverick - January 10, 2012
maybe it wasn't as "scolding" as you think it was.
after that McDonald’s law suit it made restaurants serve coffee at much lower temperatures.
Rob Young - January 10, 2012
if there was cream already in it that can make it cooler too
Rob Young - January 10, 2012
I hope this is as good as The Informant! and The Girlfriend Experience
Farthammer - January 10, 2012
It's not.
Matthew Roth - January 10, 2012
He was trollin’
Rob Young - January 10, 2012
I don't understand the hate for these two.
The informant wasn’t uproariously funny, but it was subtle and had it’s share of laughs, and while TGE was emotionally lacking and a little uneven, it wasn’t a bad movie. Maybe you didn’t like the direction Soderberg took with them, but they weren’t awful, and they weren’t poorly put together. I fucking liked the informant.
Want a legitimately bad Soderberg flick? Try the good german or ocean’s twelve.
lolumad - January 11, 2012
Tatum Channing Tatum
CT would have totally taken her down if not for the meddling of that pencil-necked geek … and his talking dog!!!
glib_mf - January 10, 2012
Something tells me
if Gina was a complete unknown to the mma community and this preview came by, there wouldn’t be this wave of negative reaction. The positive reviews its gotten so far basically says as much. That’s not me signing off on the film, but some of these comments are ridiculous.
Genki Sudo's Choreographer - January 11, 2012
These people don't understand a film till they're
“high”. What do you expect.
UncleMax - January 11, 2012
As long as Channing's arm stays broken through the movie
I’ll enjoy it.
If his arm isnt broken, or is miraculously usable in the next scene, it’s going to be a painful watch.
If you make a movie with ‘realistic’ gun play and fight scenes, you dont get to pick and choose when to subvert the realism for the sake of style – ie, cocking the gun after it has already been fired.
That’s just lazy film making.
Benicio - January 11, 2012
further more
After trying to force her to leave, he then decides to take a shot at her from 3 feet away? Hate movie scenes that arbitrarily switch between trying to kill and trying to capture.
MasonA - January 11, 2012
Director: Ok Gina, be sexy now.
- Gina licks her lips -
Director: Alright Gina, now be serious.
- Gina bites her lips -
Director: No no no, I said be serious.
- Gina licks her lips -
Director: Damnit Gina, look serious.
- Gina bites her lips -
Director: Alright, cut! That was great Gina. …sighs…
Shnak - January 11, 2012
Move aside, Citizen Kane. Haywire's coming through.
Zachary Kater - January 11, 2012
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