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Review: Swordfish

Cast: John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Barry

Director: Dominic Sena (Gone in Sixty Seconds)

Reviewed By: Clay

Plot: Hackers, hot chicks, and bitchin guns. That’s what’s Swordfish is all about. It’s essentially a heist film with a heavy hacker twist.

DVD Special Features: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby,Theatrical trailer(s), 2 Behind-the-Scenes Documentaries: The Making of "Swordfish" and The Effects in Focus, Feature-Length Commentaries, 3 Alternate Endings, Hidden Features, DVD-Rom Features, Widescreen anamorphic format.

Good special features. Nice director’s commentary and I liked the alternate endings. The alternate endings aren’t real flashy but they show interesting possibilities. No doubt they used the better version in the film.

The Good: The opening scene in this movie rocks. The first 10 minutes are so wicked that its perfect. John Travolta is at his very best. It’s a very smart scene and John makes some great movie references.

Yes Halle Barry is nude in this movie. Yes she is amazing but oddly the nudity seemed out of place in the scene it ended up in. Halle looks amazing in this whole movie and the nudity didn’t do anything make her any sexier.

While the movie lugs a little in the middle of the film it has a great ending and in the end it’s a good action flick.

The Bad: All hacker movies have bad tech plot points. Hacking is slow and boring work but Hugh Jackmans character can hack government computers at will. Computers make for boring plot drivers but you have to just get over it.

Bottom Line: Great beginning, slow middle, great finish

Rating: Three cocktails

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