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Steven Soderberg has made movies from artsy explorations of characters to Science Fiction films with a romantic and heavily ambient tone to a Hollywood film about the war on drugs. These are but a few themes he’s explored. He’s never attempted to shoot a straight up action film, which is what he set out to do with “Haywire”.

“Haywire” begins with a fight a diner followed by an interesting car jacking. From there we begin to learn how Mallory (Gina Carano) got to that point and what the motivations are for the rest of the tale. Mallory, a black ops soldier, has been betrayed and plans to find out who did and why. The bodies begin to pile as she gets deeper and deeper into this tangled web of lies.

The X-Men Comics are Marvel’s take on Russian Literature, an intricate Soap Opera involving social dissidents, their struggles in a world that denies their integration, and the bloodlines that connect the past, present, and future. X-Men, with a rich collection of complex heroes and villains, seemed like an ordeal for any filmmaker courageous enough to translate it to screen. Bryan Singer, who wooed audiences with the audaciously clever “The Usual Suspects,” took on that challenge, and despite several popular characters having condensed or no part of the story (Sabretooth’s dismissive appearance and Gambit’s omission, for instance) Singer was able to form a blockbuster franchise. Handing the reins to the shaky hands of Brett Ratner for the third film, “X-Men: The Last Stand,” Singer’s mutant trilogy ended unevenly, considering the X-Men’s most renowned storyline, The Dark Phoenix Saga, was dreadfully shortchanged.