Swordfish

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Summary: Swordfish was awesome
Review: I loved swordfish. i don't usually like hacker movies or terrorist movies, but this was amazing. i love Hugh Jackman and John travolta, and Halle Berry was great. This flick was worth seeing more than once. Halle Berry's nudity was totally unnessesary, but i can live with it. it was not overdone like most critics say, it was just impressive. i definetely think this is a spectatular movie, and i reccomend it to everyone.

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Summary: dumb movie!!!!
Review: This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. The plot has no coherence at all, it seems all the scenes are contrived to exhibit explosions, shooting, car chases and attractive women. It's as if they started with the stunt scenes and tried to build the movie around them.

The scene where the hacker is forced at gunpont to break into a computer account in 60 seconds is so ridiculous- there he is typing franctically like someone who has forgotten his email password....

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Summary: HI-TECH, HI-BROW & HI-YA, HALLE!
Review: The opening hostage/bomb sequence will literally knock you off your theater seat. Hugh Jackman's performance is top-notch. Halle's role is one of looking good in every scene she's in. I guess that was what she was paid for. It's difficult to not notice her. I tried, then realized she was just gonna be a fixture in the film. Travolta bored me. He's got that Jack Nicholson "I-don't care-anymore " look in front of the camera.

Three stars. No more.

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Summary: actually 2 1/2 stars - Passable
Review: Swordfish was OK. The biggest problem I had with it was that it didn't follow its own internal logic. The movie makes a big deal about misdirection, which I thought it did a relatively good job of until the end. When Jackman's character realizes what has happened, he flashes back to an earlier scene where he discovered an important clue. A clue that Travolta's character obviously knew he had found. But Jackman does nothing with this information, even though he had plenty of motivation to use it to his advantage, and the plot never gives us any reason why Travolta would have been OK with him knowing about it. The whole back story about Jackman's character not being able to visit his daughter at all because of his wife didn't make any sense - how good a lawyer do you need to at least get visitation rights when your ex-wife is an alcoholic who acts in porno flics her husband produces, apparently in their own house! That said the action scenes are good, if predictable, and the movie was engrossing.

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Summary: Better than Gone in Sixty Seconds. WAY BETTER!
Review: Let me start right off by saying Swordfish is one of the best action movies so far this year. Trust me its better than Spy Kids and way way better than Pearl Harbor, which was good but went down the wrong path. Dominic Sena directs a fastpaced very intelligent action flik. It makes his last movie Gone in sixty Seconds look like kindergarden crayon pictures. Swordfish stars the always cool John Travolta, suave new comer Hugh Jackman, and the sexy very sexy Halle Berry. I don't want to tell you too much about the story because I'll give everything away, but its mainly about Travolta trying to steal 9.5 BILLION dollars from an old shut down government project codenamed Swordfish. Any more info will ruin everything. The movie also has a "Bullet Time" shot in the first few minutes that makes the bullet dodging in the Matrix look like silly puddy. What Swordfish has in common with Gone in Sixty is there are three major action scenes, which in Gone in sixty Sena decides to leave those all till the conclusion of the movie. But in Swordfish he spreads them out leaving plenty of room for a worthy plot. I read Roger Eberts review of Swordfish and he said he didn't like how some of the charachters switch from being good guys to bad guys several times and you don't know whose bad and whose good. Im sorry but this tells me he wants the people of america to go to a movie and have no intelligent thought and be a bunch of zombies, obviously he's going to like that load of garbage called "The Fast and the Furious." I think Sena made the switches because he wanted the audience to think and actually get something out of this movie. I highly recommend Swordfish as one of the best action fliks in a while. I give it five stars out of Five.

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Summary: Great action movie
Review: Last night my family and I saw swordfish and I was kinda disapointed with the ratings all the critics gave the movie because I highly disagreed with them because from when the movie started and when it ended there was nonstop action. I agree that the movie wasn't greatly acted when your in an action movie u don't have to act to be in it. Once again John Travolta plays a great bad guy but I must say this isn't as good as Face-Off but its worth the money. So if you are in the mood for a good action movie then this is for you.

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Summary: DVD Material
Review: Definitely DVD material. The critics need to run and hide. All of that negative talk about this movie is simply bologna! This movie was very exiciting and the acting was very credible. John Travolta, great job. Halle Berry, you picked the right part.

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Summary: Let the Action Begin
Review: For slam-bang, heart-stopping, adrenaline pumping action, you've come to the right place, and the code name is "Swordfish," directed by Dominic Sena and starring John Travolta and Hugh Jackman. In the opening scene, Gabriel Shear (Travolta) is sitting at a table in a coffee shop discussing the hostage situation in the Pacino movie "Dog Day Afternoon," with a couple of unidentified gentlemen you see only from the back, because the camera is focused on Gabriel. And it's an absolutely riveting scene. And it isn't long before the action starts, and once it does it pretty much keeps going until the end, with a brief respite now and then to plug some story into the proceedings. The plot is fairly complex and somewhat convoluted, but the main thing is you get an idea of who the good guys and the bad guys are, or at least enough to keep you in the story, which is held together by some incredible action that is ruthless and relentless.

Gabriel is something of an enigmatic presence from the beginning; you know he's up to something and that it involves the transferring of a huge amount of money (like in the billions) that belongs to someone else from their bank accounts into his own. But to successfully effect his plan he needs the services of the number one computer hacker in the world. Enter Stanley Jobson, newly paroled after a stretch in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary; he's the man for the job, but the terms of his parole forbid him to even touch a computer. Gabriel, however, has done his homework, and knows how to get to Jobson, and it has to do with Stanley's estranged daughter, and his need for some cold, hard cash that would enable him to go into court and fight his ex-wife for custody. And when the amount Gabriel offers Jobson is so far beyond anything he could imagine, it makes it hard to turn him down. But then again, if he winds up back in the slammer, he's never going to see his daughter again. So what's it to be? Gabriel has no doubts about which way Jobson will go, though; he's very persuasive, and he's a man who is used to getting anything he wants.

Sena is no John Woo, but he definitely knows how to keep things interesting and moving along so quickly that any plot holes that may surface are lost in the swirl of the action. And he comes right at you with it, big and loud and thoroughly entertaining, just what you want in an action film-- and unlike Sena's previous outing, "Gone In 60 Seconds," there is enough story here to keep it involving. There's a good use of foreshadowing, too, from the opening scene, in which Gabriel pretty much outlines what you can expect, to another prominent element which, if it gets by you will have you slapping your forehead and saying, "Right! I get it!"

Travolta does a good job of bring Gabriel to life and conveying that subtle menace that makes him a threatening presence without appearing outwardly brutal or malicious. But there's a complexity to the character that he never really lets you in on, and you can only guess as to what it is that really motivates him. Jackman, on the other hand, gives you a pretty good indication of what makes Jobson tick, though what you see is pretty much what you get; as with Travolta's character, there isn't much time for character development, but you're at least given enough to get a handle on them. The same goes for Halle Berry's Ginger, whom you're never quite sure of until the very end. Berry certainly cuts a striking figure, however, and she has a smoldering screen presence that makes her a good fit with both Travolta and Jackman. Don Cheadle gives a good performance as Agent Roberts, though it isn't much of a stretch for him artistically; in Roberts, in fact, there is a definite resemblance to the character he played in "Traffic."

The supporting cast includes Vinnie Jones (Marco), Camryn Grimes (Holly), Sam Shepard (The Senator), Laura Wachal (Helga) and Zach Grenier (A,D. Joy). Sena definitely moves up a rung on the action/director's ladder with "Swordfish," which is well made and packed with thrills, action and some engaging performances. it may not be a film that will go down in cinematic history, but it's good entertainment and a cut above the usual summer fare that falls within the action genre. Travolta casts a mean evil eye, Jackman's fingers fly over a keyboard and Berry sizzles. Not much more you could ask for, I think, in an action movie. And that's the magic of the movies.

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Summary: Average
Review: Other reviewers have been verbose, let me be brief:

Pros:
Vincent Vega with a heavy machine gun
Wolverine using a computer
Halle reading a book
Explosions
Innovative action scenes (the first hack test, the bus escape, Stanley's final shot at Vincent)

Cons:
Several embarrassingly awful lines
Poor pacing... often slow. Isn't this supposed to be an action movie?
Underdeveloped characters
Hilarious computer scenes. Anyone who has ever operated a computer will laugh at the cheesy "hacker" scenes.
Recycled thugs. You'll recognize every one of Travolta's hired goons.
Surprise ending. Why, at the end of the movie, did Stanley suddenly choose to agree with Gabriel?

Better than:
Universal Soldier
Mission Impossible
Under Siege

Worse than:
Die Hard
Ronin
HEAT
Face/Off

At the end, my buddies and I let out a collective "ho-hum". Worth a matinee, or a view on cable.

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Summary: awesome blossom
Review: very good! excellent spcl. effectsa and nice body.....