Swordfish

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Summary: Pure greatness
Review: The first 15 minutes sealed that movies greatness. That use of effects was amazing and hopefully it gets reconized as a Matrix type movie.

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Summary: Kick A*S movie! Must buy!
Review: Great movie. I hate John Travolta but he actullay does a good job in this movie. This is a must buy!

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Summary: Hot Damn I give this a SIX
Review: GREAT ACTION,ACTING, PLOT, AND HALLE BERRY'S BREATS. A MUST SEE!
ALSO GREAT ALTERNATE ENDINGS.

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Summary: Ive already ordered the dvd.....
Review: This movie is so good. And it is so cool. In fact, it is the epitome of cool. It is great right from the beginning, Travolta's monologue is great. It is said at the beginning of movies: theyre a moral dilemma, bad guy cant win. But then Travolta gets away with everything. But that gets you thinking, then if the bad guy cant win, is he really the bad guy? I think he's not. He's protecting the U.S. This movie also has great special effects, the 360 pan around explosion is the BEST EXPLOSION EVER in a movie. The plot is good, and the finale is just so cool, its unbelievable. The music is good to, Ive preordered my copy already. Anybody who doesnt like this movie obviously cant understand great cinema even when it hits em in the face.

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Summary: Brilliant!
Review: Possibly the greatest opening scene in movie history. The special effects of the first scene alone makes Swordfish a must have for DVD collectors. Anybody that likes to cheer for the bad guy will love this movie.

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Summary: 'Swordfish' In Light of 9.11.01"
Review: "Swordfish" is not much of a movie, but it had the "good fortune" to be released earlier this year, well in advance of the horrific events of 9.11.

Had Warner Brothers scheduled "Swordfish" for a Fall release , it would have met the fate of "Collateral Damage" and a number of other action films with terrorist themes and ordered shelved indefinitely.

The video/DVD release coming as it does this week gives what is nothing more than a routine action thriller a certain relevance and almost creepy sort of resonance.

The John Travolta character, a fierce professional anti-terrorist who uses any means to wipe out the Bin Ladens of the world probably appeared excessive before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon...in light of 9.11, we all would probably like to see such an operative working at every CIA station in the world.

The DVD boasts excellent video and audio transfer and includes some nice special features: a "Making OF" documentary...three alternate endings and director's commentary.

One extra note: Hallie Berrie's topless scene should be a favorite of every male DVD owner with a penchant for the rewind button.

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Summary: listen up
Review: come on this movie has to kick some serious booty. lets look as to why. it cannot be just a bunch of crappy action cuz john travolta is in it i mean did you see him in pulp fiction he is a good actor. and then look at this halle berry shows her yabbos. jeeze oh petes men how could this not be the ultimate movie. just my opinion.

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Summary: Worst Movie I Have Ever Seen
Review: I have never seen a movie this poorly made before. Only someone who has no clue about computers will be impressed by the nonsense in this movie. What's all this nosense about x-byte encryption and someone cracking codes by typing at warp-speed? It uses every opportunity to use programming terms, nudity, and violence. The plot makes no sense. The progression from one scene to another is just absurd. If ever a movie deserved to be banned, it was this. I suppose, even though it's Rated-R, it's really meant for kids in their mid-teens. Can't imagine anyone else getting bored by it. You should absolutely avoid this!

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Summary: Now this is action.
Review: John Travolta stars as Gabriel Shear, a sinister mastermind with an elite criminal crew who are desperately trying to access information locked inside a complicated computer system that contains government secrets and if they can hack it... a $9 billion payday. That is the backbone of this hightech action film of the summer.

This movie has explosions, cool acting, and ... They paid Halle Berry a lot of money to flash her bad boys and let me say it was money well spent.

Enough with that... though, this movie has some dialoge that may get to the compter people out there. Some of you may laugh but the rest of use wouldn't know so its dismissable.

As far as acting goes, everyone is enjoyable. Jackman could be the next action star and you get a smile watching Travolta have fun as the badguy.

This moive has a cool script, cool techno music, and good directing with some killer FX (everyone must see the explosion at the start of the movie, it was one of the best FX this summer) and stunts. The story holds you with mystery and intrige and never lets go. All around good mindless fun.

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Summary: Predictable drivel
Review: Sometimes exciting but for the most part predictable thriller about a world-class computer hacker (Hugh Jackman), who is recruited by a shady government spy (John Travolta) to break into a Los Angeles Bank and steal billions of dollars in unused government funds by cracking computer security codes. Halle Berry is the sexy vixen of a sidekick to Travolta who may or may not be on his side. Great performances all around, even for this genre of filmmaking, but the plot is mostly talk at the beginning, mundane plotting in the middle, a very exciting climax and an easily foreseen ending. Travolta definitely rescues himself from the hell he put himself into with Battlefield Earth and Lucky Numbers in 2000, but this one isn't near the level of quality that he struck with Get Shorty or Pulp Fiction. Berry has a large role but once again her talent is wasted in favour of gratuitous nudity and overemphasis on her character's potent but ultimately (in this script) useless sexual charisma. Jackman is very appealing both physically and emotionally, but between this performance and the one he gave in Someone Like You you're basically looking at the same character caught in two different circumstances.