By Eddy My God what have I just watched?  I have returned to my hotel room after watching the movie Haywire and I had to start writing the review.  I couldn’t bear to think about the movie any long than I had too.  Believe me, I will be taking a long shower after this…and I am not ruling out crying it out in the fetal position while I am there. Steven Soderbergh has taken the Ocean's movie formula way too far. Just because it worked more or less with those comic caper movies doesn’t mean it will work all the time, it also helped to have the full star power and charm of Brad Pitt and George Clooney.   While not lacking in stars (Antonio Banderas, Ewan McGregor, Bill Paxon, Channing Tatum, Micheal Fassbender and Michael Douglas  all of whom mailed in their performances)the movie in its purest essence is a revenge film ala Death Wish and therefore needs a bit more that a couple of stars mugging for the camera it needs to have an actual story.  It honestly felt that the … [Read more...]