Review – Swordfish

Here’s yet another one of those sad attempts to imitate John Woo that falls miserably short. This time around John Travolta plays an out-of-control shadow government operative who’s spearheading an obscure plot to steal more than nine billion bucks’ worth of DEA funds and use them to finance a covert war against terrorism. To pull off his scheme, he enlists the help of the world’s best computer cracker, enticing him with Halle Berry and blackmailing him with threats against his daughter. As with most movies in this particular genre, this flick depends heavily on effects and action sequences to carry it (though a chortling moron a few rows down from me in the theater evidently thought a lot more of the script than I did). The action stuff’s not bad, but it isn’t especially good either. And really, that sums up the production as a whole. Mildly amusing