Haywire was not, as I’d hoped, the super exciting action/spy/thriller that would launch Gina Carano’s career as an action star and maybe make me not hate Channing Tatum. After a somewhat rocky start featuring a lot of C-Tates dialogue, it actually got pretty good for a minute with a pretty good action scene in Barcelona, but it ended up being a little too straightforward. These movies just seem to work so much better when it’s unclear who the protagonist should trust and there’s an almost dizzying amount of plot twists.

The cast was both impressive and odd, though. Michael F. Assbender, Bill Paxton (who actually hadn’t been in a movie since 2007), Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas, and Ewan McGregor is quite the group. But then there’s Tatum, and Gina Carano’s skill is pretty limited. Though she is quite badass and easy on the eyes (and that lip biting gif they use on Filmdrunk at the end of every article that mentions her was no fluke, she really does a lot of lip biting), I can’t imagine she will ever play a part that doesn’t call for lots of kicking and punching.

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