Swordfish (2001)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 99m
Director: Dominic Sena
Cast: John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Sam Shepard
Synopsis:
A rogue senator's scheme to finance the war on terror goes awry when the head case he uses for his criminal operations refuses to stand down. Meanwhile a convicted computer hacker with few prospects and a custody battle to finance has been recruited to engineer the transfer of billions in dormant assets.
Review:
This smug caper begins with a cinematic analysis of Dog Day Afternoon before pulling back to reveal a hostage stand off at crisis point. It later has its smooth talking villain spout about Houdini to explain the frozen stiff in his wine cellar, so one should not be surprised when it continues to misdirect the audience's attention in ever more preposterous ways. Travolta has fun lighting cigars and strutting around in an absurd two-tone wig, while Halle Berry is wasted in an eye candy role, but credibility is the problem here. The scenario, which asks us to believe that the government would just forget about the interest on all those ill-gotten millions, soon has explosions take over from suspense, for which read Jackman hacking into a programme under one minute with a gun to his head while receiving a blow job, so that is probably just as well. Oh, and the film has probably the most precocious neglected ten year-old in the history of the movies.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 99m
Director: Dominic Sena
Cast: John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Sam Shepard
Synopsis:
A rogue senator's scheme to finance the war on terror goes awry when the head case he uses for his criminal operations refuses to stand down. Meanwhile a convicted computer hacker with few prospects and a custody battle to finance has been recruited to engineer the transfer of billions in dormant assets.
Review:
This smug caper begins with a cinematic analysis of Dog Day Afternoon before pulling back to reveal a hostage stand off at crisis point. It later has its smooth talking villain spout about Houdini to explain the frozen stiff in his wine cellar, so one should not be surprised when it continues to misdirect the audience's attention in ever more preposterous ways. Travolta has fun lighting cigars and strutting around in an absurd two-tone wig, while Halle Berry is wasted in an eye candy role, but credibility is the problem here. The scenario, which asks us to believe that the government would just forget about the interest on all those ill-gotten millions, soon has explosions take over from suspense, for which read Jackman hacking into a programme under one minute with a gun to his head while receiving a blow job, so that is probably just as well. Oh, and the film has probably the most precocious neglected ten year-old in the history of the movies.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 99m
Director: Dominic Sena
Cast: John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Sam Shepard
Synopsis:
A rogue senator's scheme to finance the war on terror goes awry when the head case he uses for his criminal operations refuses to stand down. Meanwhile a convicted computer hacker with few prospects and a custody battle to finance has been recruited to engineer the transfer of billions in dormant assets.
Review:
This smug caper begins with a cinematic analysis of Dog Day Afternoon before pulling back to reveal a hostage stand off at crisis point. It later has its smooth talking villain spout about Houdini to explain the frozen stiff in his wine cellar, so one should not be surprised when it continues to misdirect the audience's attention in ever more preposterous ways. Travolta has fun lighting cigars and strutting around in an absurd two-tone wig, while Halle Berry is wasted in an eye candy role, but credibility is the problem here. The scenario, which asks us to believe that the government would just forget about the interest on all those ill-gotten millions, soon has explosions take over from suspense, for which read Jackman hacking into a programme under one minute with a gun to his head while receiving a blow job, so that is probably just as well. Oh, and the film has probably the most precocious neglected ten year-old in the history of the movies.