गैब्रियल शियर के नेतृत्व में ब्लैक सेल नामक एक गुप्त काउंटर-टेररिस्ट यूनिट, अंतरराष्ट्रीय आतंकवाद के खिलाफ़ उनकी लड़ाई में मदद के लिए पैसा चाहती है, लेकिन वह पैसा कहीं अटका हुआ है. गेब्रियल ... सभी पढ़ेंगैब्रियल शियर के नेतृत्व में ब्लैक सेल नामक एक गुप्त काउंटर-टेररिस्ट यूनिट, अंतरराष्ट्रीय आतंकवाद के खिलाफ़ उनकी लड़ाई में मदद के लिए पैसा चाहती है, लेकिन वह पैसा कहीं अटका हुआ है. गेब्रियल एक अपराधी हैकर स्टेनली जॉब्स को अपनी मदद करने के लिए बुलाता है.गैब्रियल शियर के नेतृत्व में ब्लैक सेल नामक एक गुप्त काउंटर-टेररिस्ट यूनिट, अंतरराष्ट्रीय आतंकवाद के खिलाफ़ उनकी लड़ाई में मदद के लिए पैसा चाहती है, लेकिन वह पैसा कहीं अटका हुआ है. गेब्रियल एक अपराधी हैकर स्टेनली जॉब्स को अपनी मदद करने के लिए बुलाता है.
- पुरस्कार
- 5 जीत और कुल 10 नामांकन
फ़ीचर्ड समीक्षाएं
Well, Stanley Jobson (Hugh Jackman) a convicted Hacker, fresh out of prison and desperate to see his daughter again, can beat you, i'll bet on it. He has to hack into the FBI Computers in a fairly public place, with a gun to his head and a beautiful woman performing an act of Felacio on him, and he has just one minute to do it. (A Great Scene, Not Explict, just cool)
Anyway, he is recruited by John Travolta to hack into a dormant DEA Fund worth 9.5 Billion Dollars to finance his terrorist activities.
Full of Slick Dialogue, cool Direction and the simply gorgeous Halle Berry, this turns out to be a very enjoyable Thriller, with some clever twists (some of which don't quite work) but are forgivable anyway.
Not a classic, but a good film none the less. 8/10
Mylo On The Movies gives it 3.5 out of 5 stars.
Some of this script is a takeoff on Dog Day Afternoon, which Travolta's character re-enacts a role from that famous '70s film. "Shear" talks about that movie during the film.
I almost got discouraged watching this in the first half hour because there is so much computer terminology that I was lost. However, if you find yourself in a similar spot, take heart because that that ends after that first 30 minutes and is no longer a problem.
Credibility and bias aside, it's still a fun movie for at least one viewing, with that early bomb scene most memorable.
Travolta plays this incredibly ruthless man, someone committed to keeping the country safe from terrorists, who offers a hacker with child custody issues (Jackman) a chance to make a fortune, enabling him to hire a top attorney and get custody of his daughter. He needs the code cracked to a bank and account holding $9 billion in government money, and the money disseminated to various accounts.
The beginning of the film is fascinating - it's Travolta discussing the film Dog Day Afternoon - but alas, it's downhill from there. I'm normally not the most technically observant person when I'm watching a movie, but even I could tell that computerized images and miniatures did a lot of the work.
Hallie Berry gets to show off most of her beautiful body and there's plenty of action. Young men, I'm sure, love this film. Unfortunately I'm not a young man. And after seeing "Swordfish," I was 1 hour and 39 minutes older.
The ingredients are pretty standard. There's a stylish kick-ass villain (Travolta) with a plan, being a high-tech bank robbery. This is all garnished with lots of weapons, technology, car chases and beautiful women. This movie really delivers on the action front, I don't think there's any 'quiet' scene that lasts more than 2 minutes. It also contains the now standard implausible hacking scenes, where getting into the computer system of a bank involves solving a kind of Rubik's cube on your computer screen. I hope you're not offended by product placement because a certain computer brand is quite prominent when IT hardware is involved in this movie. But it's by far not as obnoxious as in "I, Robot".
The filming is top-notch, unlike some other movies you can actually see what's happening in the action scenes (which is sometimes due to the amazing slow-down effects in some scenes). Unfortunately the entire plot becomes quite thin when the movie is stripped of all this action and style. However, it works. The ending is rather vague, as if room was left for a sequel without making it too painful if there wouldn't be one after all.
Overall I would say this is a pretty OK movie, but don't expect the best cinema ever.
क्या आपको पता है
- ट्रिवियाThe dramatic explosion at the start of the film was captured using 135 synchronized still cameras.
- गूफ़The $400 million in DEA money is said to have grown, "with interest", to $9.5 billion in 15 years. That would represent a compound interest rate of over 21% per year, which is unrealistic. At 12%, the money would have grown to a little less than $2.4 billion. At a more realistic 6%, it would be about $981 million, or a little over one-tenth of the value claimed in the movie.
- भाव
[first lines]
Gabriel: You know what the problem with Hollywood is? They make shit. Unbelievable, unremarkable shit. Now I'm not some grungy wannabe filmmaker that's searching for existentialism through a haze of bong smoke or something. No, it's easy to pick apart bad acting, short-sighted directing, and a purely moronic stringing together of words that many of the studios term as "prose". No, I'm talking about the lack of realism. Realism; not a pervasive element in today's modern American cinematic vision. Take Dog Day Afternoon, for example. Arguably Pacino's best work, short of Scarface and Godfather Part 1, of course. Masterpiece of directing, easily Lumet's best. The cinematography, the acting, the screenplay, all top-notch. But... they didn't push the envelope. Now what if in Dog Day, Sonny wanted to get away with it, REALLY wanted to get away with it? What if - now here's the tricky part - what if he started killing hostages right away? No mercy, no quarter. "Meet our demands or the pretty blonde in the bellbottoms gets it the back of the head." Bam, splat! What, still no bus? Come on! How many innocent victims splattered across a window would it take to have the city reverse its policy on hostage situations? And this is 1976; there's no CNN, there's no CNBC, there's no internet! Now fast forward to today, present time, same situation. How quickly would the modern media make a frenzy over this? In a matter of hours, it'd be biggest story from Boston to Budapest! Ten hostages die, twenty, thirty; bam bam, right after another, all caught in high-def, computer-enhanced, color corrected. You can practically taste the brain matter. All for what? A bus, a plane? A couple of million dollars that's federally insured? I don't think so. Just a thought. I mean, it's not within the realm of conventional cinema... but what if?
- क्रेज़ी क्रेडिटThe last credit reads "Final Password: Vernam", which is part of the website game. (See Trivia). A Vernam cypher is a method of encrypting a message.
- इसके अलावा अन्य वर्जनAlternate television takes were shot for the scene with Ginger at the pool (she wears a bikini) and where Stanley hacks into the main frame of the Departement of Defense (Helga is not there).
- कनेक्शनFeatured in Conversations with Jerry Bruckheimer (2000)
- साउंडट्रैकDark Machine
Written by Paul Oakenfold and Andy Gray
Performed by Paul Oakenfold and Christopher Young
Courtesy of London-Sire Records
टॉप पसंद
- How long is Swordfish?Alexa द्वारा संचालित
विवरण
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बॉक्स ऑफ़िस
- बजट
- $10,20,00,000(अनुमानित)
- US और कनाडा में सकल
- $6,97,72,969
- US और कनाडा में पहले सप्ताह में कुल कमाई
- $1,81,45,632
- 10 जून 2001
- दुनिया भर में सकल
- $14,70,80,413
- चलने की अवधि
- 1 घं 39 मि(99 min)
- रंग
- ध्वनि मिश्रण
- पक्ष अनुपात
- 2.35 : 1