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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Violence, Nudity, Adult Language, Sexual Situations Movie Release: 2001 DVD Release: 10/30/2001 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 39 mins Studio: Warner Home Video Total Copies: 146 Genres: Crime, Thriller, Crime Thriller, Caper See Also: Swordfish [UMD for PSP], Swordfish [HD DVD], Swordfish [Blu-ray], Swordfish

Director Dominic Sena follows up his stylish action film Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) with this high-tech thriller. John Travolta stars as Gabriel Shear, a charismatic spy who plots to steal a multi-billion-dollar fortune in illegal government funds. In order to make his scheme work, however, Gabriel needs some help from a computer hacker, which is where Stanley Jobson (Hugh Jackman) comes in. Stanley has been paroled from prison after serving a lengthy sentence for penetrating the FBI's cyber-surveillance operations. Issued a restraining order that keeps him away from computers and living penniless in a trailer park, Stanley wants only to be reunited with his daughter Holly, who's in the custody of his ex-wife, now remarried to a pornographer. Gabriel and his partner Ginger (Halle Berry) offer Stanley the chance to get his child back in exchange for his help, but the hacker soon realizes he's a pawn in a larger operation than the high-tech bank heist he thought he was perpetrating. In the meantime, a dedicated federal agent (Don Cheadle), the same man who once arrested Stanley, is trying to expose Gabriel's operation. Swordfish also stars Sam Shepard and Zach Grenier. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide

John Travolta - Gabriel Shear
Hugh Jackman - Stanley Jobson
Halle Berry - Ginger
Don Cheadle - Agent Roberts
Vinnie Jones - Marco

The DVD presentation of this cyber-centric thriller features a 2.35:1 letterboxed transfer, which has been enhanced for playback on widescreen monitors; the disc also boasts Dolby Digital 5.1 audio in both English and French. (In addition, the film is subtitled in English, French, and Spanish.) Director Dominic Sena contributes a bonus audio commentary track, while the DVD tacks on two short features on the production of the film, "The Making of Swordfish" and "The Effects in Focus," two unused alternate endings, and the original theatrical trailer. Appropriately enough, the disc also includes additional features that can be accessed on computers with DVD-ROM drives, among them a guide to hacking into secure computer files, and links to the film's websites. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide