Thanks
for the intro, Mike! Wow! Two films in one weekend! This is some
sort of record!
Not to mention I've rented three DVD's (Crouching Tiger, Hidden
Dragon, Titan A.E. and Dark City), however I
don't think I'll be reviewing those...
But this evening I saw "Swordfish"
which was directed by the same people who made The Matrix
(and we all know that that was one very cool movie!). Interestingly,
it managed to be very different to The Matrix in just about
all respects. I mean the plot is obviously totally
different, but I was expecting to see the Matrixish "bullet
time" sequences (where the camera spins around the scene while
the action continues at slow motion) done everywhere, but instead
there was only one sequence like that and it was very different.
If you remember in The Matrix, all the bullet time sequences
were very quiet, with all the attention placed on the visuals.
The sound kinda slowed down... Well in Swordfish, nothing
stops. The sound is deafaning and really makes the
scene so different to anything else you're likely to see.
Back to the movie as a whole though... The plot revolves around
a criminal mastermind who's recruiting hackers from all around
the world. No one knows why, and only at the end do you really
find out what this "Gabriel" bloke (John Travolta) is up to. (And
I'm not going to give it away)
The other central character is Stanley (Hugh Jackman A.K.A. Wolverine
from X-Men) who is the only hacker that Gabriel manages to recruit
and keep out of the hands of the F.B.I. Driven by the will to
get out of his surroundings and win back his daughter from his
drunken ex-wife and her porn king husband, he agrees to meet "Ginger"'s
(Halle Berry) employer for a fee of $100,000. Things get out of
hand from there and he's thrown into Gabriel's world.
The action is what makes this film (it's definately not the authenticity
of the "hacking" scenes). There are several scenes in which you're
on the edge of the seat and you should see Gabriel's car!
I want a TVR too!
The summary here is, if you're after a rather unbelievable, slightly
hypocritical, exciting and fun movie, then Swordfish is a good
bet! Here are my ratings:
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