HAYWIRE - What a bad way to start off a happy fun night of hopping. I literally cannot think of one good thing to say about this movie. In fact, if I go into detail about all the really crappy aspects of this film we will both be here a while. Instead, let's try a more concise, bullet-point format:
- worst ADR ever, everyone sounded like they were in a different room from one another when speaking right next to each other
- musical score did not match at all, it was “comedic heist” when the scene was simply “chick walks down street”
- Gina Carano, the lead, seems to have been hired for her ability to kick things rather than any acting quality… overact much? makes sense when you look at her bio...
- dialogue like "surrender now if you want to live" and (cut to extreme close on someone's face) "you better run" made it hard to take seriously
And don’t get me started on plot holes, or story aspects that literally made no sense. Wait, I thought of a redeeming factor! It was only an hour and a half long.
CONTRABAND – Giovanni Ribisi cracks me up. No matter what role he plays, he always sounds like a cracked out gangster, and at least now in this film he is allowed to embrace his natural inclinations. I have a love-hate relationship with Mark Wahlberg, admittedly mostly hate, but he wasn’t half bad here. And I always love Ben Foster, even in his bad movies (of which I would not consider this one of them). Compared with Haywire this movie was Oscar-worthy, but on a normal scale I would consider it solidly watchable.
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