When the DEA shut down its dummy corporation operation codenamed SWORDFISH in 1986, they had generated $400 million which they let sit around; fifteen years of compound interest has swelled it to $9.5 billion. A covert counter-terrorist unit called Black Cell, headed by the duplicitious and suave Gabriel Shear, wants the money to help finance their raise-the-stakes vengeance war against international terrorism, but it's all locked away behind super-encryption. He brings in convicted hacker Stanley Jobson, who only wants to see his daughter Holly again but can't afford the legal fees, to slice into the government mainframes and get the money.
In this futuristic technology spy movie, John Travolta plays Gabriel Shear, a man who is desperately trying to access information that is locked inside a complicated computer system that contains mountains of government secrets - and money. He hires Stanley Jobson (Hugh Jackman), a desperate computer expert, to help him hack into the system.
Arriving at the tail end of Hollywood's naive fascination with the imaginary lifestyle of glamorous hackers, this is an utterly ludicrous daydream without even the hint of a connection to reality. It's loaded with stars - Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry and John Travolta (of all people) take the leads, with supporting shots from Don Cheadle and Vinnie Jones - but abysmally acted and thoroughly stiff, narrow and postured. The plot stabs in all directions without hitting anything substantial, more wrapped up in looking cool than going anywhere, and has its priorities so far out of whack that it actually expects the audience to deify the same character that's shown casually slaughtering dozens of innocents in the very first scene. As vapid, cheesy, overindulgent mind-numbers go, it's a real jewel.
This is a pretty decent action movie with a mediocre storyline and mediocre action scenes, nothing more and nothing less. Two things that really stand out in this film for me is the soundtrack with its nice futuristic fast paced electronic music and the casting. John Travolta is as great as always in his role of the charismatic bad guy. Halle Berry also shows herself from her best side (and no I don't mean the you-know-what scene but I'm talking about her overall appearance throughout the entire film). And Hugh Jackman makes a remarkable performance as our main good guy as well. For the rest there is a minor role for Don Cheadle as well but his character doesn't really add much to the movie. It's mainly the Travolta - Berry - Jackman trio that makes this film.
The action is constant, often pointless, definitely gratuitous, and breathlessly fun.
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