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Swordfish (2001)

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Reviews Counted:134

Fresh:34

Rotten:100

Average Rating:4.3/10

Consensus: Swordfish is big on explosions, but critics dislike how it skimps on plot and logic. Also, the sight of a person typing at a computer just isn't that interesting.

Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: There exists a world within our world. A world beneath what we call cyberspace. A world protected by firewalls, passwords and the most advanced security systems. In this world we hide our deepest... There exists a world within our world. A world beneath what we call cyberspace. A world protected by firewalls, passwords and the most advanced security systems. In this world we hide our deepest secrets, our most incriminating information, and of course, a whole lot of money. This is the world of Swordfish.

Gabriel Shear (JOHN TRAVOLTA), a charismatic and dangerous spy wanting to finance his own brand of patriotism, needs inside this world. If he can get in, billions in illegal government funds wait for the taking. To actually steal the money, however, heíll need a superhacker, someone whose talents make even the most airtight security systems of the world look like childís play.

That ís where Stanley Jobson (HUGH JACKMAN) enters the picture. One of the two best hackers on the planet, Stanley has been forbidden to get within 50 yards of the nearest electronics store after doing time for wreaking havoc on the FBI's controversial high tech cyber surveillance operations. Now Stanley is living out his life in a broken-down trailer, penniless, alone and without the two things that give his life meaning his computer and his daughter Holly, whom he lost in a divorce.

Gabriel and his beautiful partner Ginger (HALLE BERRY) lure Stanley into their clandestine world, baiting him with the one thing he can't have a chance to reunite with Holly and start a new life. But once Stanley enters their world, he realizes that nothing in this operation is what it seems and he has become a pawn in a plot that's a lot more sinister than a high tech bank heist.

From producer Joel Silver, who has brought to the screen some of today's most successful and acclaimed films, including the Oscar-winning smash The Matrix, and Jonathan D. Krane, whose roster of over 40 films includes Phenomenon and Primary Colors, comes a dark counter-espionage action thriller about power, money, sacrifice and 21st century breaking and entering. -- © 2001 Warner Bros. [More]

Starring: John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle

Starring: John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Camryn Grimes, Vinnie Jones, Sam Shepard, Zach Grenier, Drea de Matteo

Director: Dominic Sena

Director: Dominic Sena
Screenwriter: Skip Woods
Producer: Joel Silver, Jonathan D. Krane, Dan Cracchiolo
Composer: Christopher Young, Paul Okenfold
Studio: Warner Bros.

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Geoff Andrew
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Time Out
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Jaded, cynical, dumb and degenerate.

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11/10/02
Christopher Tookey
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Daily Mail [UK]

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10/30/02
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Rich Cline
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10/15/01
Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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08/10/01
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Techno tosh, but fitfully great fun all the same.

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07/27/01
Mark Dinning
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Simply too inane to be anything more than a formulaic Hollywood blockbuster.

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07/16/01
Neil Smith
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Good pacing and intriguing characters drive the overflowing testosterone blitz to an above average level of fun.

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07/21/09
Cole Smithey
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10/18/08
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08/07/08
Mark Halverson
Mark Halverson
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11/01/07
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06/30/07
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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A techno thriller that suffers from narrative shortcomings but is elevated by the star power of John Travolta and Halle Berry and particularly Aussie actor Hugh Jackman who's bound to become a Hollywood star.

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12/01/06
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Scott Nash
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08/08/03
Guylaine Cadorette
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