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Summary: Travolta hit the mark
Review: Pulp Fiction, Saturday Night Fever and Grease were great. The rest of Travolta's work I could easily pass on (I mean, The General's Daughter, excuse me???)Here he found a great outlet for his obvious talent--the loveable rogue. Keep in this genre and you'd be a much better actor, John
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Summary: superhighway
Review: I enjoyed this movie about internet fraud at had all the action going on and it was a movie you didn't want to leave from in front of the t.v. John Travolato was great and his supporting cast was too. A movie you have to have in your dvd collection I rented it and I must have it to watch again and again for the excitement.
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Summary: Travolta At His Best.
Review: First of all, don't listen to me. In fact, don't listen to anyone when it comes to this movie. It's one of those that you will either love or hate, there is no in-between. The best thing to do is just see it for yourself and develop your own opinion on it. Now, if you decide to listen to me after all, here is my review. I'll be honest, when it came out on video, I had never heard of it. When it was mentioned to me by a friend, I thought it sounded like some cheesy, Steven Segal movie, so I was hesitant to rent it, but I went ahead and got. The opening scene is very misleading. It starts out with John Travolta's character talking about movies. It's kind of slow and if you've seen Get Shorty, you start to wonder if this is what it's going to be like. This theory is proven wrong not one minute later. It catches your attention from the beginning and holds it until the very end. To say you saw what was coming is very misleading but that's exactly what this movie is. Misleading. It leads the viewer in one direction, then does a 180, curses along for a while at 75 MPH, then reverses 10 feet and goes left. The ending is a classic, ending in an unconventional chase sequence that will leave you breathless. All in all, I would say it is the best movie I have seen in a very long time. One of Mr. Travolta's best. And Halle Berry wasn't too bad herself. ;) But, as I said, don't listen to me. Go out and see it for yourself.
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Summary: AN "EXTRA" NOT ON THE R1 DVD
Review: If you're into DVD extras and your player is modded for multiple regions consider the Region 4 Australian release. It's the same as the R1 version with the addition of an interview with John Travolta and Hugh Jackman from a TV show called "Rove Live" (a tonight style show)which ends with Travolta & Jackman performing a song from "Grease" with Jackman taking the Olivia Newton-John part. It's a real hoot!
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Summary: really bad hacker film
Review: Try and get this - a hacker who's been banned from going anywhere near a computer for more than a year, manages to hack into a DOD mainframe protected by 128 bit encryption security, ... with a Dell laptop, while being given a blowjob at the same time... The film lost me after that...
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Summary: All fluff, no thought required
Review: Swordfish is pretty much the same type of film as Gone in 60 Seconds. It's style over substance. Both films LOOK great and have a great style, but they are both very intolerable films for the fact that they are so dumb and unrealistic that it can get aggravating. Clocking in at a little over 90 minutes, it's easy to see why this film didn't win over very few fans. The story is very bare bones and rushed and you don't know what is happening from one minute to the next and then all of a sudden it ends. I'll admit, Halle Berry is AMAZING, but I really recommend you avoid this flick. Rent 3000 Miles to Graceland if you want a really great plot.
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Summary: Give Swordfish A Chance
Review: I let all the critics scare me away from Swordfish. It sounded like a movie to avoid: boring, inept & predictable. One of my friends came over the other night and we decided we didn't have anything better to do than to check out this supposed dullard of a flick. WOW! Popped it in and I was blown away. I don't know, maybe some people like movies of an intellectual bent where you get your brain all twisted around and have some warm touchy-feely thing going on and some ambiguous moral lesson to be learned and inevitably end up thoroughly confused amidst a maze of modern theatrical art. Not me. I want a movie that gets me so excited I spill my popcorn all over the couch dodging the bullets that fly across the screen. I want a movie that will keep me from pausing and running to the restroom no matter how much discomfort I am in because I just can't find a good stopping point. That's what Swordfish is like. I'm not sure what movie the critics watched, but it's almost like it wasn't this one. Sure the hacking was "cinematic" not "realistic." Sure the action was over the top. Sure the characters weren't "deep." Sure we had some gratuitous sex and violence. Hey, that's what I payed for. Call me bad, call me crazy, look down on me, but this is my kinda medicine for a bad week. If I want to get a headache from some sort of intellectual pursuit, I'll do that where I get paid to. When I plop down money for a movie, I want to let my brain relax and get my adrenaline pumping. Swordfish more than delivers on that point. John Travolta rocks, Halle Barry is sexy and all the actors put out wonderful performances. The effects will leave you numbed from their awesomeness, the soundtrack will pound you into oblivion, and you'll be taken on one wild ride. If you don't like action, sex, adventure and lots of explosions, pass this one up. But if you do, Swordfish is the movie for you. Forget what the critics say. Let them have their "intelligent" movies. I'll take my dumb fun any day over that.
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Summary: An almost complete waste of time
Review: Utter tripe. Glossy, noisy tripe... but still tripe. As so many have said here... you already know it's stupid, but it might even have been worse. I actually watched the alternate endings (God help me) and believe me, the ending they went with was the best of the bunch and that's not saying much. Halle Berry has a very nice body which you will get to see most of, briefly.
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Summary: Sordid Fish
Review: SWORDFISH is always Slick and Glossy. Unfortuantely SWORFISH is also stilted and inane. This screenplay idea has been shot many times already and usually better. But, this version follows and borrows from THE MATRIX allowing for some impressive slow motion explosions. John Travolta, wearing a ridiculous make-up design that never looks natural, replays his villain from BROKEN ARROW and is shown up by the... ummm... physical performance by HALLE BERRY who brightens the scenes with her 'tonality'. HUGH JACKMAN plays a bland everyman that also gets lost behind Halle Berry's "Charms." The DVDoffers far more than the flick deserves including alternate endings and a couple documentaries. But, its the video and audio transfer that will shake your home entertainment system.
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Summary: only if you like halle berry...
Review: otherwise you should steer clear. cheadle gives a good performance (as he did in oceans 11, another not so great flick), and jackman holds his own but more wasted star power with the likes of travolta and berry. another rising star is vinnie jones, the british tough guy who works for travolta's character. if you like the few moments he did have, go see snatch and lock, stock and two smoking barrels, he's great in those movies. if not, you should see them anyway cause they're great movies. anyway, just another high action blow stuff up kill people kinda movie, hollywood (stuff)that actually looked good in the preview. in fact, if you went on the poster alone this movie would get 5 stars, but you can't judge a book by its cover, can you?
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