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Haywire (2011)

I'd heard some pretty mixed reviews on this one, but a lot of the negatives seemed to focus on Gina Carano's abilities as an actress. The solution? Don't think of her as an actress. Think of her of what she is: a martial arts star. That means that you don't compare her acting work with Angelina Jolie, Andrew Garfield, Bruce Willis , or even Jason Statham. Those are actors who've had to do special training (or use stunt doubles) for specific action scenes. They aren't martial artists. You need to compare her with action stars like Dolph Lundgren, Steven Seagal, Jet Li, Jean-Claude Van Damme who are actually martial artists. With that in mind, Haywire is a pretty awesome mainstream martial arts flick and Gina Carano's acting ability is more than a match for her peers in that genre.

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So this new female-led martial arts movie got me to thinking.... If they were to do a female version of The Expendables (which apparently will have just one female member in the upcoming sequel), what might it look like? This is what I came up with:

An All-Female "Expendables" Team:
I would SO watch a movie with this cast....