Swordfish

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Summary: excellent
Review: this movie was so good. i didnt expect john travolta to play such a character that he did and halle berry. but this movie is excellent. its about a terrorist who wants money and halle berry is his girl/partner in crime. it has a good plot, and worth every minute of your time. very action packed. i give it a A++

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Summary: Swordfish:action and wit personified
Review: This movie should be considered an action powerhouse.
From the beginning to the end I was at the edge of my seat wondering what the next move would be. It follows in the tradition of some of the new fast paced action thrillers of the 90(ie.Speed and The Matrix). Its worth the money, just remember to take your bathroom break and get your popcorn before the start because you don't want to miss a second of this action thriller

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Summary: "It's done take cover!" says Travolta - BOOM!
Review: After a long speech by John Travolta's Gabriel Shear about the realism of hostage movies, particularly Pacino's 'Dog Day Afternoon', he gets up and leaves the coffee shop. Following him, is Stanley Jobson (the superb Hugh Jackman), looking rather worried... Outside, a huge police blockade! Snipers, helicopters, squad cars and an excellent Don Cheadle co-ordinating the police. "Step aside, I won't ask again." Travolta says, clutching some hand held device. Shear and Jobson then walk into a bank across the street, hostages by the dozen wrapped in C-4 and ball bearings waiting there... Shear's men leave the bank,with the hostages, then one of the hostages is grabbed by the police. "Let her go!" Jackman shouts. "Release the hostage!" Cheadle shouts. "It's done, take cover!" says Travolta... Then, BOOM! The hostage, out of range explodes... Then, in slo-mo and flo-mo, we are treated to a 270 degree pan of the scene- ball bearings tearing up the SWAT team, the cafe, cops flying over their vehicles. Jackman, on the floor, looks up and sees a ball bearing rolling over to him... and there ends the greatest opening to a movie ever seen... The rest of the film never lives up to the first ten minutes, but it's still pretty damn good though!

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Summary: I wish i could give this film Zero stars
Review: If you like comically bad 'plots' lots of explosions and mindless violence you will like this film.

If you have any taste at all you will hate it - i expect most people to disagree with me but this was perhaps the worst film I have ever seen - how could so much money and talent be so wasted?

Oh and the famous Halle Berry nude scene was a letdown as well.

Avoid.

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Summary: Awesome Action Movie that asks the right questions
Review: First, the action. Swordfish has some of the best action sequences in a movie. Within the first 5 minutes-I was clenching my seat going "OH MY GOD."

Second, the questions. Movie questions- The opening seen talks about the lack of realism in movies. "What he (the bad guy) wanted to get away with it. Really wanted to get away with it." Most movies don't really address that. This one does.
Terrorism questions-This movie asks, how far do you go to protect US citizens? A very good question. People might even pay attention after 9-11.

The computer stuff is a bit hokie, but thats the worst thing in the movie to me. They had to some graphical representation of the 'worm.' After all, just showing lines of code would be very boring.

Even before 9-11, this was a great action movie about terrorism.

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Summary: Swordfish; a pleasant surprise
Review: When I went to see this movie I was not expecting much, but I was pleasantly surprised: this movie is awesome. It has obvious action elements, a tease of romance (for the ladies), a bit of technolust, and it is mostly quite realistic making it quite believable as a possible real-life scenario. The soundtrack too is very awesome (techno). I'm not going over the plot as it would spoil it. Just see it, trust me. .... The only reason why this doesn't get 5 stars is because its not a cultural megaphenomenon of a movie (you know, like LotR or Star Wars, etc..)

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Summary: Swordfish - a true stinker
Review: This movie has just hit the cinemas in Denmark. I went to see it with some friends. We all agreed that this movie should have been sent directly to video/dvd.

There are so many cheap effects in it that it's amazing. There is only one actor in the movie that knows how to act, and that's Travolta. All the other actors performances are pathetic. And the 'plot'... is just an excuse to go from one predictable action scene to the next.

My advice is to avoid this movie like the plague...

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Summary: Middling action-thriller sparked by slick gloss and dialogue
Review: "Swordfish" opens with a superior sequence containing of dialogue----that's right, dialogue, which can, from time to time in American cinema, consist of intelligent sentences, colorful expressions, and be unequivocably entertaining. The picture has that when villian John Travolta discusses such films as "Serpico," and the hand-held cinematography, combined with extreme close-ups and carefully expeditious editing, highlights the film right from the get-go.

Then it gets going hill, unfortunately, unwinding into a standard thriller chock-full of stupid car chases and outrageous sequences, including the finale in helicopter. It combines those big-budget thriller elements with computer-based intrigue, but not very well; this whole picture feels less like something newly created and rather a product that has been manufactured.

It's made with some style, and doesn't apologize for what it is, and the performances from Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry and especially the superb Don Cheadle are entertaining enough, but don't get to play richer, stronger characters.

For all its fancy special effects and editing, as well as lively techno music score, the picture feels overblown, as if there is a better film lurking within all of the noise and dumbed-down situations. Not an awful film, but a big, goofy picture we've seen many times before.

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Summary: DOESN'T LIVE UP TO HYPE
Review: This film of course was released in the US a long time ago but was recently released in Iceland. A friend invited me to see it with him, and I went. Two days after the terrorist attacks in the US. It was ironic and almost chilling even to hear all this talk of terrorism in the film-and combating it-and then see flying buses and machinery crashing into skyscrapers. It was all too reminiscent of recent events in the world. Nevertheless, the film was entertaining enough. I expected something more from it than there was. I appreciated John Travolta's monologue at the beginning about movies. However, the film seems to try a bit too hard to be "cool". Halle Berry cannot act. She is gorgeous but her performance is so hollow it is not even funny. It is a good thing she had her body to showcase through most of the film. Hugh Jackman was probably the best thing about the film (maybe even Vinnie Jones), and I am not a Jackman fan.
Nevertheless I thought that the film was interesting and worth viewing. Interesting cinematography and plot.

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Summary: SWORDFISH ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I HAVE SEEN THIS MOVIE 25 TIMES AND I CAN'T GET ENOUGH!!!!!
HUGH JACKMAN WAS SEXY, JOHN TRAVOLTA WAS COOL AS ICE AND HALLE BERRY WAS AS BEAUTIFUL AS EVER. THE SPECIAL EFFECTS WERE AWESOME; THE PLOT HAD TWISTS AND TURNS AND YOU NEVER KNEW WHO WAS PLAYING WHO. IF YOU LIKED TRAVOLTA IN PULP FICTION, YOU'RE GONNA LOVE HIM IN SWORDFISH!!! I REALLY HOPE TRAVOLTA, JACKMAN AND BERRY DO ANOTHER FILM, THEY WERE ALL INCREDIBLE IN THIS FILM.
SWORDFISH ROCK ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!