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Haywire ticketstubHaywire is a peculiar sort of covert-ops thriller that can be seen as a noteworthy opposite approach to the genre from something like Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol. Where Ghost Protocol was huge and loud with snappy writing, loud music, and huge budgets, Haywire is subdued, sparse, and has a soundtrack that is almost entirely smooth jazz. It was definitely an odd sensation to be watching a thriller that seems hellbent on putting the audience to sleep. In some ways, the differences were refreshing, a different take on something that's become fairly ordinary is nice, but it was also a little difficult to stay awake at times, and the lazy pacing definitely didn't help things. I guess in the end it gets a shrug from me. It wasn't terrible, but it also wasn't much of a thriller in the traditional sense.

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