A former marine working freelance for the government on a secret mission is the victim of a trap.

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In the woods of upstate New York, a redoubtable spy meets a colleague in a diner. He tries to get her to come in, she beats him to a pulp with her bare hands and takes off in a stolen car, with the owner riding shotgun. As they race through the countryside, she tells him her story: she works as a secret agent for the government and she’s now being pursued by the cops after a mission that took her from Barcelona to Dublin, during which she had to kill several people...

Riot grrrl spy flick by Steven Soderbergh, who’s always game to grind down an apparently classic story into its elementary parts and then serve it back in his own unique and quasi experimental style – a method he perfected with the Ocean Eleven series. “Haywire” also offers the rare and joyous pleasure of seeing a strong and sexy woman (Gina Carano) beat the crap out of her male colleagues, just before she snaps their necks without as much as blinking. The barehanded combat scenes are as sensual as they are violent – a rare sight at the movies.