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Swordfish

2001

Dominic Sena

John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle ...

6.0

26,918

Action. Thriller Director Dominic Sena follows up his stylish action film Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) with this high-tech thriller. John Travolta stars as Gabriel Shear, a charismatic spy who plots to steal a multi-billion-dollar fortune in illegal government funds. In order to make his scheme work, however, Gabriel needs some help from a computer hacker, which is where Stanley Jobson (Hugh Jackman) comes in. Stanley has been paroled from prison after ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Ridiculous but occasionally fun"	NEU
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"A kind of dirty fairy tale in which people with nasty attitudes inhabit a trash-talking, macho world of fast cars and complaisant women"	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"It's skillfully mounted and fitfully intriguing, but weaves such a tangled web that at the end I defy anyone in the audience to explain the exact loyalties and motives of the leading characters (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"A meticulously choreographed bang-by-the-numbers action fantasy that I would accuse of peddling evil if the film weren't so dumb and incoherent."	NEG
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"A half-absorbing, half-ridiculous techno-thriller that often goes too far in audience-rousing effects"	NEU

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