• Big Screen alerts  Steven Soderbergh made it clear: upon
completing three more movies, the 49-year-old director intends
to walk away from filmmaking. (He will instead devote his
artistic attention to painting.) After watching Haywire, either
Soderbergh was hit by a sudden case of "senioritis," or he
decided to take an early retirement.   Gina Carano.
Soderbergh's latest attempt to (at least according to the press
material) turn "audience's expectations on their heads" by
subverting popular genre expectations, results in an adequate
female 007 action/adventure picture. What makes this easier to
swallow than the average Angelina Jolie outing are the expertly
staged fight sequences and a brisk running time. (Even at 93
minutes this could have used a trim.)  Haywire went before the
cameras almost two years ago. Contagion, completed after
Haywire, came and went before this hit screens. An action film
signed by a name director, shelved, and later assigned a mid-
January opening does not bode well.  Having success