Swordfish (2001)

A dark counter-espionage action thriller about power, money, sacrifice and 21st-century breaking and entering.
Cast and Information
Directed By: Dominic Sena
Written By: Skip Woods
Starring: Vinnie Jones, Sam Shepard, John Travolta, Don Cheadle, Tate Donovan, Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, Zach Grenier, Drea de Matteo, Kirk B.R. Woller, Camryn Grimes
Genres: Suspense/Thriller, Crime, Action
Country: USA
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Swordfish belongs to 21 collections
1. boobs (collaborative: moderated by Pickpocket - 51 stars)
2. Films available in HD (collaborative: moderated by kubricksucks - 13 stars)
3. #1 at the US Box Office (collaborative: moderated by BeeDub - 10 stars)
4. Internet/computers (collaborative: moderated by djross - 8 stars)
5. How Did This Get Made? (collaborative: moderated by theficionado - 8 stars)
6. Filmsite.org - Sex in the Movies, An Illustrated History (collaborative: moderated by afx237vi - 5 stars)
7. Top 3000 movies with the most votes on IMDb (public: fanfic - 5 stars)
8. We Hate Movies podcast (collaborative: moderated by NBD Rab - 4 stars)
9. Hacker (collaborative - 3 stars)
10. Movies That Kick Ass! (collaborative: moderated by sean_e_b - 3 stars)
11. Notworthy Films Staring: The Killer, Vigilante, Serial Killer, Hitman... (collaborative: moderated by TV+Film-Hub - 2 stars)
12. Top 2000 movies with the most votes on IMDb (public: fanfic - 2 stars)
13. Nonformulaic Pop Killer Flicks (collaborative: moderated by TV+Film-Hub - 1 star)
14. film puanlamalarım (collaborative - 1 star)
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17. 2001: Year in Review (public: polanski28)
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Magb | 25 5th |
Swordfish's idiotic idea of how computer hacking works wouldn't be a problem if the movie were otherwise good. Actually, it wouldn't be a big problem if the movie were bad -- which it is -- either. The real problem is that the movie is bad.
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somnivore | 40 1st |
They've successfully 'misdirected' this movie.
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glumpy_99 | 79 56th |
Preposterous action/hacker flick is great fun, as long as you can accept that Travolta's sanctimonious, overwrought opening speech is the key to reading the film proper; this is designed to be a heightened, absurdly silly pot-boiler, though the problem comes in that the screenplay and direction don't quite have the balls (or requisite skill) to take it right over the top where it belongs. Still there's much to enjoy here starting with one of Travolta's weird, 'beginning of the end' performances.
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Pickpocket | 4 35th |
A ridiculous premise and story with some really lame acting, cinematography and I can't leave out Travolta's hair. 4/10 seems generous but Halle Berry is naked in this and I really appreciated it.
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2 | WoozyB | 40 4th |
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Below average action movie that makes hackers seem like glamorous, rugged movie stars.
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andayb | 35 10th |
riddled with techno buzzwords and cursed with one of the most idiotic scripts in the genre, swordfish is where every computer nerd's boner go to die. tries to ride on the tailcoat of the matrix by blatantly copying its style, cinematography, score and even color scheme, fails in a spectacular fashion. "hollywood makes bad movies", well no shit, sherlock. the sad thing is jackman and cheadle try to take their jobs seriously. on the flip side, though, are the spectacular boobs of halle berry.
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doctor7 | 10 5th |
It feels like a high action packed, low plot sequel but it doesn't have a film to be the sequel to. It fails to be entertaining on any level, even the action is pretty bad, and isn't worth watching.
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1 | Kerrek | 12 3rd |
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So bad it's insulting.
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rockwell | 31 8th |
if john travolta is your favorite actor you dont like cinema
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Ytadel | 3 28th |
Little known pop culture factoid: Halle Berry reveals her breasts in this movie.
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twincinema | 65 43rd |
We were so naive pre-9/11. John Travolta has the most confusing facial hair in film history. Did every action film post-Matrix have to look exactly like the Matrix? It's weird to see Hugh in this role as we have been living in a Huge Jackedman future for so long.
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TedDedon | 30 8th |
The only reason this piece of garbage gets a 30 is because Halle Berry shows her boobs in it.
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Shmendrek | 1 10th |
I don't remember much of this besides the boobs. Not a good sign.
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Boobjuice | 10 6th |
Sorry Halle Berry, flashing your tits won't save this sinking ship (though I guarantee you, her boobs were the ONLY thing anybody remembers about this movie). Why anyone made this is just beyond me.
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purgatos | 25 7th |
The computer stuff makes no sense. Also some of the story makes no sense. Then the stuff that does make sense is terrible.
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spleen | 54 23rd |
Proves that no script is too cliched and stupid. A heist for people who spell heist with a "y" and think a caper is a small fish.
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Okkervil | 31 22nd |
Two great performances.
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DavidBlast | 30 13th |
As if poor Halle Berry hadn't been through enough, it must have been a terrible day when she was called back for reshoots, only to find producers threatening her at gun point, to show her breasts. This, of course, was after everyone had discovered, that nobody bought into the formula of: hacking plus blowjob minus time = plausibility.
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jkathrens | 13 3rd |
Oh, the hype promised so much and the movie delivered so little. Known mostly as the movie for which Halle Berry was paid a very large sum of money to finally show her breasts on screen, which she did in a poorly conceived and directed scene. It went perfectly with the rest of the poorly conceived and directed movie. Also, computer hackers do not look like Hugh Jackman.
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hellboy76 | 55 19th |
I remember Travolta's stupid hair, and Halle's not so stupid tits.
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joel-w-m | 3 5th |
So, Berry shows off her bod, Travolta's got blonde highlights, and Jackman looks like the sixth member of N'Sync: Not necessarily fatal to taking the film seriously but it says something that they're almost the only things I remember aside from a couple good bad-guy monologues, one cool scene where a bus dangles from a helicopter, and one cheesy montage of our hacker protagonist dancing to funk while talking to his computer. A mildly entertaining action thriller, but it's both dated and generic.
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1 | sylowi | 80 54th |
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I remember liking this but don't remember why.
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