Haywire (2011 Steven Soderbergh)

Haywire? Hanna meets Out of Sight. Like the latter it's bounced along by a cool seventies sounding soundtrack (David Holmes), with a kickass heroine in the shape of Gina Carano (in fact in real life a Mixed Martial Arts fighter) who we relish taking out the silly men who think they can get the better of her - specifically, and in order, Channing Tatum in New York state, Michael Fassbender in Dublin and Ewan McGregor - er - somewhere on a beach. With Bill Paxton, Michael Douglas and Antonio Banderas. And we should mention Michael Angarano as the wrong place -wrong time passenger (who was the young William in Almost Famous! - and more recently in The Knick).

Classily shot and edited by Soderbergh's alter egos Peter Andrews (he's even operating his own camera!) and Mary Ann Bernard, written by Lem Dobbs (The Limey) and with special help from various arms trainers and fight choreographers. I liked the Barcelona un-kidnapping scene, with the sound barely audible under the score.