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Summary: Great movie!
Review: This movie packs alot of action! Its always fun to watch. It has great actors like John Travolta, but the best is Halle Berry! Halle Berry shows her beautiful [chest], and she also strips! Great movie, buy it!
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Summary: Awful and Pretentious
Review: The only thing worse than watching this mess is watching it while listening to the commentary. If John Travolta's character wants to know what's wrong with Hollywood these days, all he has to do is watch "Swordfish." Really just the first 30 minutes... A complete failure... I feel bad for some of the good actors involved.
Rating: 
Summary: Worth seeing........Once.
Review: As a general rule, I've always felt that technology doesn't translate well to the big screen. The only two exceptions are WarGames and The Matrix. Swordfish is no Matrix. That scene with Jackman tumbling almost endlessly down a hill....How long did that scene go on anyway? It's an okay rental....but if you haven't seen it yet.....Wait for cable.
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Summary: Password Denied
Review: Swordfish was a very bad movie. I gave it 2 stars because of its great cast and the 360 shot of the hostage blow up, but other than that I really disliked it. I thought Hally Berry did a great job acting nervous when Hugh Jackman found the wire on her. John Travolta was okay as the "villian". The director, Dominic Sena, I think did a pretty bad job. The part were Hugh Jackman drops off his daugther and the police chase him while he falls and slides down a hill was horribly shot.The movie is about the biggest hacker in the world who gets out of jail after taking 20 hostages and blowing up one causing the best scene, which is a 360 degree view of all the glass breaking a police men flying through the air. Halle Berry goes and talks to Hugh Jackman who was also a great hacker. She wants him to go to her boss, John Travolta(the hacker), and make a deal. After hesitation he goes. When he gets there a guy puts a gun to Jackman's head and Travolta says he has 60 seconds to hack into the government's files and says go. While hes doing this a lady is doing something to him but I'm not gonna say. He doesn't do it in the 60 seconds and they shot him but there are no bullets in the gun and he did hack into the files. The movie gets worse as it goes on and loses its point of view. It gets really confusing because one second they are doing something and the minute later they are doing a totally different thing. If you want to waste your hard earned money go ahead and see this but if you want to save your money I'll give you one hint. . . DO NOT SEE THIS MOVIE. IT HAS NO SENSE OR PLOT TO IT AT ALL!
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Summary: Please make it stop, make it stop!
Review: Ok, let's talk about the most important part first: Why won't Halle Berry just go away? Worse, why do people keep giving her parts?! She has talent rivalled only by garden tools! Alright, letting it go, letting it go... This was a truly horrible movie in almost every conceivable way. I expected little from it, but then the opening scene gave me hope; the camera work was interesting and unusual, and John Travolta's monologue was also very good. But then the unusual camera work went from creative to overdone, the monologue
ended, the movie began and it was atrocious. It went *beyond* atrocious, and touched on the unbearable. The one redeeming feature? Hugh Jackman. But, much like Angelina Jolie in "Tomb Raider," he doesn't have a whole lot to work with. There were times when I simply cringed in embarrassment at the things his character did, most notably the scene with the 10-monitor Super Duper Ultra Mega Extreme Hack-Whiz-Bang 9700, when he's jamming on his hacking and giving these way-too-goofy grins or moans of despair as something evidently doesn't go his way. It's not as if some folks don't get totally into their programming/hacking/sysadmining, and it's not as if we don't talk to our computers and moan in despair, but the way it was done here was just utterly overblown. The whole hacker thing in this movie is just "2 xtr3333333m, d00d!" It was appalling. About midway through the film, I realized that of course a lot of people don't know what total trash this film talks, and probably will assume that computer geeks really do behave this way, and they might even think it's a good movie, because they aren't distracted by Hugh hacking into the DOJ in sixty seconds with manual typing, or the reference to one of his hacker pals named Torvalds, or how Hugh "sees" 512-bit encryption in his head and kind of works it all out on his fingers or something, and oh, by the way, Hugh designs his "hydra" in some kind of CAD/CAM program (don't we all?) [sigh] And then it hit me. I love the movie "Pushing Tin." I love it top to bottom, really, not because of any socially redeeming value, it's just fun. "Pushing Tin," however, is very likely the air traffic controller equivalent of "Swordfish;" the ATC staff plays fast and loose with the planes, does the same sort of ultra-hip dancing in their chairs, and are distracted by a myriad of things while trying to land mega-ton aircraft. I'm sure any air traffic controller who saw "Pushing Tin" had much the same reaction my boyfriend and I did to "Swordfish," and probably had the same bruises on their foreheads from bashing them on the seats in front of them too often. Perhaps "Swordfish" wasn't a bad action film, but I couldn't divorce it from the hacker movie that it so desperately wanted to be. I noticed some clever ideas or shots here and there, but overall...just frustrating. Infuriating. Awful.
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Summary: An Eye Popping Action-Thriller, which is Actually Well Made.
Review: When Ex-Computer Hacker (Hugh Jackman) has been hired by a Mysterious Patroit (John Travolta), who is a Professional Thief. The Hacker has to find a way to steal $10 Billion from the Gouverment of the United States. If the Hacker gets the Job Done, he will get $10 Million and might also has the chance to have his Daughter Back in his life but he has to deal with a FBI Agent (Don Cheadle) and a beautiful attractive Woman (Halle Berry). Superficial but a fine entertaining Actioner, which is a Surprisngly Smart film with Visual Style and Plot. This film wasn`t a Big Hit as it should in Theaters but it did OK. This movie has plenty of energy to go for with the Slam Bang Thrills. Die-Hard Action Fans will love to see this one. DVD has an Sharp Anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1) transfer and Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. DVD Extras are:An running Commentary Track with Director:Dominic Seda (Kalifornia), Two Alternate Endings, Behind the Scenes Featurette and More. This is a Clever Action Film. Panavision. Grade:A-.
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Summary: Astounding
Review: This is a truly impressive, brain damaged actioner made all the more unpalatable by John Travolta (who's become a second rate parody of himself) and Halle Berry (who makes Machiavelli seem like a bleeding heart liberal). The film's only real claim to distinction is the boob deal Berry made with the producers. Now to be worth even one hundredth of what she allegedly got paid, her 2 greatest assets would have to be the size and symmetry of basketballs---and they aren't. On the other hand it's not a bad trade for their six seconds of screen time. I'm sure she needed the extra cash for her highway legal fund. The rest of the movie is a ludicrous mishmash of bad techno-babble, macho revenge fantasies and relentless random mayhem. Those elements might make "Swordfish" seem more interesting that it really is, but there's not much unintentional humor to leaven things out (or intentional humor, for that matter). What's truly amazing about the mephitic mushroom cloud of bad karma this movie has generated is that it has managed to up the ante in Hollywood's relentless pursuit of the depths of smarm and cynicism. This is one fish that desperately needs to be wrapped in newspaper and buried by the family cat.
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Summary: bad movie
Review: this is one of the worst movies I have seen in a long, long time.
Travolta and the others should be ashamed to have appeared in this disaster.
Rating:
Summary: One three letter agency cons another...
Review: Watch this BEFORE everyone else goes to sleep, or this tremendously explosive movie will keep everyone in the house awake while you are watching it! The story is pure action from the very start. A failed hostage scene explodes across the screen. But then the hands of the clock go backward in time and the story is told that explains what you just witnessed. Just when you think you know how the movie will end, you may find yourself surprised... again and again and again and again.... The surround-sound enthusiast looks for this sort of movie to watch just to satisfy his need to hear big booming sounds happening all around him on his fancy system. The movie watcher goes for the surprises and action he sees on the screen, so I think either interest group will find this movie a worthwhile investment in entertainment.
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Summary: another travolta classic
Review: bad and not even in a good way.
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