badass in the limelight

Julien 2022-03-18 09:01:03

Starring John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry.

CIA spy Gabriel Shear uncovers a $6 billion illicit government fund that he conspires with his beautiful assistant Ginger to steal from the bank, and they need the help of a computer genius. And Stanley Jobson, one of the two best computer hackers on the planet, was jailed for breaking into the FBI and causing chaos in the FBI. After his release, he was banned from entering an electronics store and was not allowed to use a computer. His daughter is the most important thing in his life other than the computer, but his divorce from his wife has cost him custody of her daughter. He lived a life of slaughter because he had lost everything meaningful in his life. At this time, Gabriel found him and asked him to help complete the plan to steal $6 billion, on the condition that he could regain custody of his daughter. This condition makes Stanley, whose life has fallen into despair, decides to take risks in order to bring his beloved daughter back to him... The

plot seems to be quite ordinary. But the action scenes are hot, the performances are in place, and the rhythm is tight. Meet the requirements of an action movie. The plot is well set, and the bad guy played by John Travolta is in the limelight, the second villain Harry Berry is really beautiful, and the positive role is a weak black policeman. All viewers unknowingly side with the bad guys. In the end, the bad guy succeeded.

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  • Misty 2022-04-22 07:01:05

    The male pig's sense of justice is worthless, the opposite is the real righteousness

  • Mitchell 2022-03-25 09:01:06

    Such a tight and purposeful action movie must be applauded. At that time, Hugh Jackman was still a loser, and Halle Berry actually.... In contrast, action films are much more utilitarian these days.

Swordfish quotes

  • Ginger: You're not too good at this golf thing, are you, Stan?

    Stanley: You're fucking up my chi.

  • [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?