Review of Swordfish
Year: 2001 Reviewer: Chris Docker
Explosions (including some original and inventive ones), care chases (with John Travolta shooting from left and right both at once) and a massive dollop of cyber-counter-intelligence to give it a modern blockbuster feel. Travolta opens the movie with a diatribe about Hollywood movies. As the camera pans back we see he is not a second rate professor of media studies but someone about rob a bank using hostages strapped with massive amounts of explosives and ball bearings. The film opened with his statement about Hollywood movies being sh*t. This doesn't quite meet his criteria but is so close by the end of the movie it will probably be the most quoted line. Swordfish is *the* current big action movie but ultimately unconvincing.
Rating: 6/10
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