Haywire
I can definitely see the love for it. The story wasn't anything beyond a typical action flick, badass spy gets betrayed, wants revenge, but that's all it needed to be. I love the fighting, this is how you film a fight to make it look like you're actually there, no score, muted sound effects, shot from a distance, with well placed cuts. The rest of the action was fantastic for the sole reason that Soderbergh used the action sequences as a sandbox to mess around with camera placement, visual and sound editing, colours, the lot.
The performances where excellent all around, no surprise from this cast, but Channing Tatum surprised the hell out of me, really liked his work here. Fassbender basically treated it as an audition tape for Bond. Michael Douglas added class to a role that could've been boring. Banderas' facial expressions where gold. In another film Ewan McGreggor's character could've been a good protagonist, a nerd with a goofy haircut who is a total badass.
Bill Paxton, back home where he belongs, in action cinema. The "Keep your eyes open, dad", "I haven't shut them since you where born" bit was so freaking awesome, it was such a brilliant exchange, with that pure Paxton delivery. Awesome.
At least Nic Cage had a few moments of madness that reminded me of some of his past characters like in the movie Deadfall and Bad Lieutenant.
