Swordfish (2001)

Release date: 2001-06-08
Country: USA
Language: English|German
Director: Dominic Sena
Production Co: Hollywood Licensing Group, Jonathan Krane Group, NPV Entertainment
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Rating: 6.5/10
Length: 1h 39min

Storyline

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.

Plot Keywords

computer, fellatio, punched in the stomach, raised middle finger, revelation, oral sex, bare chested male, breasts, terrorist, hostage, senator, terrorism, secret agent, wearing a sound wire, told in flashback, computer hacker, mass murder, bank robbery, crashing through a wall, disguise

Short Review

It's a good thing the action is noisily distracting, because you don't want any down-time in which to ponder the plausibility, or the sense, of anything that is happening.