Swordfish

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Summary: Not great,but, still fun.
Review: Travolta does villain great and in this one he`s bad, but, not evil.He touts a noble cause, though his methods are way out of bounds.Hally Berry is well suited for her role even if her nude scene is not well placed. Having it latter in the wired scene might have worked better.Hugh Jackman is the glue of this movie.There is some stretching of reality in his computing abilities, but Stan is fun character.I liked this movie even with it`s short comings.

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Summary: Is It Just Me Or Are John's Films Getting Better Each time?
Review: Only thing i have to say is MUST HAVE, MUST SEE, LOTS OF ACTION!!! I saw previouse of this movie and to tell you the truth it didn't really interest me, until i heard other people talking about it... so I decided to buy it and i was glad i did! The story is great and different than other films are that have to do with high jacking and etc. A great movie with an outstanding cast including john Travolta, Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman and more. Swordfish starts out good and keeps you all the way until the end glued to your seat. Don't rent- buy it... because this movie is worth every penny!!!

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Summary: This Swordfish should be stuffed and mounted
Review: Swordfish is one of the oddest action-adventure thrillers of the year. It starts out with one of the main characters, Gabriel [John Travolta], drinking coffee at a table with a couple of other guys. He is telling them his theories about how an old Al Pacino thriller named Dog Day Afternoon would have been a more honest movie if the bad guy had gotten away. The camera then moves back to reveal that he has been saying all this in the middle of a huge bank robbery. We see chaos. The thieves, of whom Gabriel is the leader, have strapped bombs to their hostages and are desperately negotiating with the police and FBI agents outside. Things go terribly wrong when a SWAT team member tries to rescue a hostage and accidentally sets off a tremendous explosion that kills the hostage and several policemen. This is shown in slow motion as the camera dramatically swirls 360 degrees around the unfolding disaster. The movie then jumps to four days earlier to show us the events leading to this moment. Though somewhat cruel, this opening scene is impressive and visually arresting.

The odd part is the rest of the movie, or about 90% of it. Rather than logically explaining what lead to the robbery, the movie's plot twists and turns so much that I still haven't figured out most of it. It has something to do a covert government agency, of which Gabriel seems to be a part. This agency has 9.5 billion dollars in 'forgotten' assets which, somehow, only Gabriel and an ultra right wing US Senator seem to know about. Gabriel wants the money to fight terrorism, he claims. This absurd storyline seems to be simply a pale outline on which to lay more explosions, a long and gratuitous car chase, an absurd, though thrilling, sequence involving a flying bus, and an excuse to show costar Halle Berry's breasts. As a result, when it's over, you don't feel electrified, you feel indifferent. And that's not what a thriller is supposed to do.

Part of the problem is in the construction of modern action flicks. The idea of letting the tension build has been replaced by having these movies start off literally with a bang. This creates a situation in which the writers give themselve a hard act to follow. It's sort of like beginning a joke with the punch line. The makers of Swordfish try to compensate for this by showing another thrilling event every five minutes. The result is what they call in the movie business 'overproduced'. Or, as Shakespeare put it, something 'full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.'

John Travolta breezes through his role. It's not a stretch for him, since he's played similar characters several times before. Halle Berry is beautiful to watch and does a decent job as Ginger, who may be either Gabriel's lover, a government agent or both. The problem is that her role adds to the story's confusion and is essentially unnecessary. The bright spot is Hugh Jackman as Stanley, a computer hacker recently released from prison. He is commandeered by Gabriel to crack the bank's code so the money can be transferred electronically. Jackman is an actor promisingly close to major stardom. He gives Stanley a dimension and a meaning that aren't really present in the script. He manages to make something out of essentially nothing, and that takes real talent.

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Summary: This movie made me stupid
Review: As the title of my review suggests, this movie is responsible for destroying a considerable percentage of my intellect. Here's a tip for all english majors who aspire to write techno-thrillers: Proper grammar is no substitute for content. Apparently, Hollywood writers don't agree. I call this syndrome, "The fact that you can say something without breaking grammatical rules doesn't mean that you know what you are talking about." Depending on my mood, I might also call it, "I dropped in a logic bomb and pushed it through the trap door," or even, "Stick to love stories, you technically incompetent ninnies."

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Summary: Worst Movie I have seen in a long time is there a 0 star?
Review: Wow, this was terrible. I can't believe I sat through the full movie. If you like to watch a series of action shots with no plot this is for you. The movie goes from bad to worse. John Travolta starts the movie out with a monologue on all the mistakes they make in movies and why they turn out terrible. Well this movie seemed to make every one of them. There is no redemming quality in it at all. Entertaing no, confusing and boring. Very painful to watch. Anyway save your self some pain and rent the Fast and the Furious.

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Summary: It's Great
Review: Regardless of the other reviews , I think this movie is one of the best , maybe not in the ethic value, but in the action itself. as an action movie , it sure is an ACTION movie! .
Travolta has played his character perfectly as ever, Jackman also played a good part himself , the only thing that I don't like about such movies is the lack of realism when it comes to computers ! , like hackers hacking in 60 seconds into some sort of a complicated multi million dollar system ! this is totally unrealistic .
You know, when we (and I mean all of us) watch a movie we are nearly 100% sure that the good guy will win . that's why I usually don't get worried or excited throughout the movie , but the fact is that sometimes I wanted the bad guy to win ! , and that's another thing I like about this movie !

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Summary: Must Own for the Action Fan
Review: A great action movie. Perfect if your collection includes Steven Segal, Clint Eastwood or Al Pacino.
Travolta plays a brilliant (or demented) master mind who has a plan to steal millions of dollars. Halle Berry is a DEA agent hot on his trail (or is she?). Full of action packed sequences and plot twists. Don't miss this one.

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Summary: Not what I expected
Review: A friend rented this while I was visiting. I was entertained from beginning to end. This movie had a great plot that was very intriging and unexpected, and despite playing loose with computers (twasn't totally awful like some flicks) kept me thoroughly entertained. I went home and bought the DVD, that should tell you how I feel. It was a far better movie than the dismal advertising portrays. It is a bit prescient in topic as it would've been stalled for months like Collateral Damage in the wake of 9/11 had it been released later.

4 Stars because I enjoyed it enough to own it.

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Summary: A total waste of time
Review: I've come to expect more from John Travolta and Halle Berry. Swordfish presents a plot so farfeched and characters so unlikeable the only real pleasure comes when the film finally ends. Save your money

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Summary: Worst movie in recent years
Review: This is the most pointless exercise in the excesses of current movie cliches. The basic plot and character of Travolta has some potential but never becomes more than cartoonish. The sex scenes were insulting because they were pointless...as pointless as Halle Berry's entire character. Get rid of both and the movie would have been only slightly better.

This is not the fault of the actors, all of whom do their best. But Travolta steals the show. Too bad the pointless, insulting, gratuitously overladen-with-sex-and-explosions plot ruins everything.

Rent before you buy or you may be sorry. You may be as sorry as I was for wasting the money on the rental.