Year: 2011
Writer: Lem Dobbs
Gina Carano is a female MMA fighter. Soderbergh says he saw her fight on TV and decided a movie should be built around her. What he built is a spy movie that breathes, takes its time more than the Bourne style flash edited, disorienting action sequences... here, the action set pieces are the focus. What the original Gone in Sixty Seconds from 1974 is to car chases, this film is to fight sequences. They are left pure, unadulterated by the editing. You see the characters perform their brutally choreographed fights and it gives you great pleasure as an audience to just be able to watch as if you were cowering at one end of the hotel room rather than be jostled around by editing. Gina's acting isn't great, but it's forgivable. This movie was just fun to watch for the way it follows her through fights and chase sequences. I like how Soderbergh even lets bad luck influence a scene, letting a plan be ruined by something completely out of anyone's control. This may actually be a kind of sleeper film. Not great now, but we may look back on it in the future with the kind of enjoyment I look back on Le Samourai.
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