
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 co... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
Leave your thoughts about Swordfish.
| E! OnlineE! StaffThe movie tries too hard to make working on computers sexy. (Trust us, it's not.) |
| Matinee MagazineChuck Rudolph[An] incredibly convoluted and ponderous techno-thriller that does little but showcase fast fading star John Travolta at his most staggeringly ineffectual. |
| Baltimore SunChris KaltenbachA good movie? Hardly. But more than enough to pass a dog day afternoon. |
| Kansas City StarRobert W. ButlerSuperficially diverting and ultimately empty, an exercise in technique without content. |
| BeatBoxBetty.comBeatBoxBetty StaffAmounts to nothing more than just a major hard drive crashola. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanA good movie? Hardly. But more than enough to pass a dog day afternoon. |
| Palo Alto WeeklyJeanne AufmuthSomeone please tell John Travolta to take a vacation. |
| Movie Reviews in CroatianVictoria AlexanderPutting aside all the right and logical reasons to slam this film, its big summer fun and makes Sena's Gone in 60 Seconds look like a long day in driver's education school. |
| Audio Video RevolutionAbbie BernsteinSwordfish is made with demonstrable skill and enthusiasm, and it's so improbable in its particulars that most viewers in the mood to do so will be able to kick back and enjoy it as shoot-'em-up entertainment. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzThis "Swordfish" has a smell to it, like it's not fresh. |