2001 Directed by Dominic Sena
Rogue agent Gabriel Shear is determined to get his mitts on $9 billion stashed in a secret Drug Enforcement Administration account. He wants the cash to fight terrorism, but lacks the computer skills necessary to hack into the government mainframe. Enter Stanley Jobson, a n'er-do-well encryption expert who can log into anything.
John Travolta Hugh Jackman Don Cheadle Halle Berry Sam Shepard Vinnie Jones Drea de Matteo Jason Christopher Zach Grenier Rudolf Martin Camryn Grimes Angelo Pagan Chic Daniel Kirk B.R. Woller Carmen Argenziano Tim DeKay Laura Lane Tait Ruppert Craig Braun William Mapother Ilia Volok Jonathan Fraser Shawn Woods Leo Lee Marina Black Kerry Kletter Ryan Wulff Ann Travolta Margaret Travolta Show All…
Village Roadshow Pictures Silver Pictures Jonathan Krane Group NPV Entertainment Warner Bros. Pictures
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It looks like somebody was holding up orange tinted oakleys in front of the camera for every shot. It's easy to sit here in 2021 and laugh but you have to understand that people in 2001 thought that the "you wouldn't DOWNLOAD a CAR" warning on DVDs was basically the coolest thing possible and we were experiencing the end of history.
Some truly phenomenal scenes in this thing. Loved the scene where Hugh Jackman has to hack with a gun to his head while he gets a blowjob. Love the scene where two guys are chasing Jackman and so he jumps off a mountain and then they jump off the mountain and then it's like a three minute scene of…
“It’s easy to pick apart bad acting, shortsighted directing, and the purely moronic stringing together of words that many of the studios term as prose.”
None of Swordfish makes any sense. Why would it begin in medias res? Why did it cost $102 million to make? Why is Hugh Jackman, supposedly the most formidable hacker in the world, visibly awestruck by, like, nine monitors glued together? How is Travolta, despite one insufferable tic after another and a soul patch, so damn magnetic? Why are there so many explosions? Amuses me to no end that Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow were so hungry for another Matrix that they’d hire a hack like Skip Woods to whip up a bogus script that…
Hugh Jackman bekommt einen Blowjob, während Vinnie Jones ihn mit Pistole am Kopf daran hindert, den Kopf der Blondine wegzudrücken, weil er parallel noch für John Travolta einen FBI-Computer hacken muss - und im Hintergrund feixt Halle Berry rum. Wie kann man diesen Film nicht mit liebevollen Augen betrachten?
Davor gibt es noch eine der besten Eröffnungssequenzen in der Geschichte des modernen Actionkinos und großartig besetzt bis in die kleinste Nebenrolle ist Swordfish auch noch - inklusive herrlich überzeichneter Charaktere, die sich mit ihrem Overacting immer wieder gegenseitig die Show stehlen.
Man darf nur einen Fehler nie begangen haben: Den Film zum Zeitpunkt seines Entstehens gesehen zu haben. Knapp 20 Jahre später ist Swordfish allerdings ein Musterbeispiel für alles, was…
This movie might actually be the cinematic distillation of a plothole. The plot makes no sense. It was just one big gaping hole into which all narrative reason slid, inexorably, as the revelations came, slowly but stupidly.
There is not a single woman in this who isn't reduced to either a sexual object or a plot device. Sex work is demonized. It's racist and Islamophobic in a casual way while glorifying the FBI, Mossad (indirectly), and the U.S. government. "Our way of life" is a phrase used unironically in the movie.
The acting is bland, because that's what you get from a cast of middle-of-the-road superstars in a bad action movie designed to appeal to a mass audience. The lighting/color…
Cinematic Time Capsule
2001 Marathon - Film #63
”He exists in a world beyond your world”
John Travolta and his misguided hair decisions take us on an obnoxious journey that’s about as subtle as dental surgery with a sledgehammer.
Along for the ride are Hugh Jackman doing his variation of a ‘hack ’n jack’ and Halle Berry who’s apparently out to show us she’s more than just an Oscar winning actress.
Yep, it’s a really awful movie and it’s easy to make fun of, but I’ll tell you what, it kept an astonished smirk on my face from start to finish and I was never bored.
In fact, I’d say it’s so hilariously over-the-top that sometimes you just gotta take your hand off the wheel and let the giddy lunatic of bad entertainment do all the driving.
”We’ll have to improvise… take the wheel!”
WARNING: MISOGYNY ALERT
My LB buddy Bradley took a fair bit of shit a few days ago after posting a review of that Allen v Farrow documentary where he was firstly called a misogynist and then a racist by a proper cunt. Now Bradley likes a laugh as much as the next person, and several of our LB friends had some fun over this creature's attitude, name-calling, and utter disregard for our community as she linked Woody Allen, white people, and pedophiles into a stunning mix of horseshit. My question is this, if a woman doesn't like something a man has said, is it all considered misogyny? If that's the case, then I'm guilty whether I agree with it or…
An effective and sleek action thriller, Dominic Sena's "Swordfish" profits from a rock-solid cast and a sturdy-enough story. Combining tech, backroom global-political machinations, and high-dollar thuggery, the film is swift, entertaining, and compelling. Its narrative may not stand up to intense scrutiny, but the enterprise supplies ample fun.
Following a reformed hacker who gets caught up in a nefarious plot when trying rekindle his relationship with his forcibly estranged daughter, "Swordfish" revolves around that plot and those who would gain from it. Cyber-threats, high-tech thievery, and physical seductions drive the story which is elevated by an interesting collection characters.
Sena's film takes place in a sun-bedecked world of clubs, banks, and hillside mansions. The canvas is stylishly colorful, its characters…
Terrible if you watch it as a 100% serious cyber thriller. Fantastic if you watch it as a parody of big budget action blockbusters.
Halle Berry is a babe, Hugh Jackman with an earring, John Travolta in full wildman mode.
