a5c7b9f00b In this futuristic technology spy movie, John Travolta plays Gabriel Shear, a man who is desperately trying to access information that is locked inside a complicated computer system that contains mountains of government secrets - and money. He hires Stanley Jobson (Hugh Jackman), a desperate computer expert, to help him hack into the system.
When the DEA shut down its dummy corporation operation codenamed SWORDFISH in 1986, they had generated $400 million which they let sit around; fifteen years of compound interest has swelled it to $9.5 billion. A covert counter-terrorist unit called Black Cell, headed by the duplicitious and suave Gabriel Shear, wants the money to help finance their raise-the-stakes vengeance war against international terrorism, but it's all locked away behind super-encryption. He brings in convicted hacker Stanley Jobson, who only wants to see his daughter Holly again but can't afford the legal fees, to slice into the government mainframes and get the money.
This movie stars the likes of Hugh Jackman, Don Cheadle, and yes, John Travolota. I&#39;m not even going to talk much about Halle Berry, who&#39;s only point in the film is eye candy basically. Then again, if I had boobies and was offered a bonus of 100,000 (which is in addition to the already paid $2 million) just to show them off well sh*t, wouldn&#39;t hurt right? This film&#39;s tone changes rapidly in a really bad meshing together of things. The beginning exposition pays tribute to a &#39;similar&#39; (feels bad just typing it) film, &quot;Dog Day Afternoon&quot; and the scenario seems somewhat comparable at first. That is until one of the hostages makes a run for it and explodes which leads to a 360 degree view of the very large boom. Right then and there it breaks any ties it had to the subtle &quot;Dog Day Afternoon&quot;.<br/><br/>The film parades around with this overdose of nice suits, nice cars and luscious women, over dampening its attempted political angle with Hollywood tripe. Was it really necessary to have Jackman hack a computer with a gun to his head AND getting a blow job? I mean how many people really bought that? And I don&#39;t mean to poke fun at the movie, but the amount of overly loud action scenes, with their exceptional explosions did initially lead me to believe it was a Michael Bay film. It isn&#39;t though… but was it trying to be? &quot;To be or not to be, that is the question.&quot;
SWORDFISH (R)<br/><br/>Stars: John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle Director: Domininc Sena Studio: Warner Bros. Length: 99 minutes Release Date: June 8, 2001<br/><br/>Film **** (out of ****)<br/><br/>MAY CONTAIN A FEW SPOILERS!<br/><br/>&quot;You know what the problem with Hollywood is, they make s**t&quot;, but Swordfish is far, far way from that!<br/><br/>Swordfish is many different movies wrapped into a great one. It&#39;s one of those movies that should require seatbelts when watching, because I haven&#39;t felt more tension in any action movie for quite some time now. Add in the element of John Travolta, one of my favorite actors, along with a star studded cast, and you&#39;ve got the ingredients for a brilliantly rousing piece of action moviemaking, ranking it with the same league as Die Hard and Speed.<br/><br/>Even if Swordfish wasn&#39;t an all around great movie, I would still give it credit for containing perhaps one of the best opening scenes in the history of movies. It opens with Travolta&#39;s character, ex-CIA agent and now rogue spy Gabriel Shear, talking to the camera about the crap Hollywood makes, particularly why Dog Day Afternoon would be a better movie if the bank robbers had successfully gotten away. It then cuts to a strangely similar situation, but much more outlandish and over the top. I won&#39;t go into much more detail, except that the opening scene results in one the most jaw dropping explosion I&#39;ve ever scene in a single movie, which also includes some purely magnificent special effects.<br/><br/>Following that scene, the story flashes back to the events that lead up to the heist. Shear, along with the beautiful rogue Ginger (Halle Berry) enlists, and somewhat blackmails, reformed computer hacker Stanley Jobson (Hugh Jackman) to help him in an electronic bank robbery worth precisely $9 billion. Stanley&#39;s reward, a simple $10 million payment(who wouldn&#39;t want to do it?). Stanley returning as an alleged computer hacker raises the interests of FBI Agent Roberts (Don Cheadle), who once labled Stanley as one of the two most notorious computer hackers in the world.<br/><br/>What separates from other action movies, as well as most mindless summer fare, is that it actually contains a good plot in addition to the wonderful action scenes and effects. There&#39;s also John Travolta, who delivers another one of his deliciously charasmatic villainous portrayals. Resurrected from the debacle of Battlefield Earth, Travolta is completely back on track in a performance that is really worth the talent he has.<br/><br/>Filled with non stop twists and turns at a rapid pace, Swordfish is this summer&#39;s best offering, and may go on to be the Best Movie of 2001, at least for me.
By the third big climax the audience started to get impatient with the movie's pointless zigs and zags.
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