Swordfish: Critic Reviews

Nobody really cares about the plot, least of all the filmmakers.

An action opera designed to elicit Beavis and Butt-head-level appreciation.

The story ... is just what fills in the gaps between slow-motion fireballs, Matrix-style frozen mayhem, and Halle Berry's notoriously undraped breasts.

Another in a long line of middling movies for Travolta.

The kind of movie where glass-smashing in slow motion serves the same function as extended guitar solos did in '70s rock concerts.

Feels like every other action thriller we've seen in the past three years, only it's more annoying.

My inner jock left hungry for some good final jolts.

The sleazy script by Skip Woods ... slimes the actors.

Cool explosions are the best thing here.

Good pacing and intriguing characters drive the overflowing testosterone blitz to an above average level of fun.

A techno thriller that suffers from narrative shortcomings but is elevated by the star power of John Travolta and Halle Berry and particularly Aussie actor Hugh Jackman who's bound to become a Hollywood star.

Strap yourself in for the ride and enjoy.

It calls itself a 'thriller,' apparently because it is loaded with pointless machinations that pile up into a tortured wreck of narrative desperation.

Some explosions, a lot of techno, two X-Men, and a Sweat-hog.

Jaded, cynical, dumb and degenerate.

...plays out like Jerry Bruckheimer's table scraps-- going through the motions in a clueless fog of market-research statistics and demographic pandering.

Trite and overdone and undercooked and thrown together and ridiculous and wasteful.

[An] incredibly convoluted and ponderous techno-thriller that does little but showcase fast fading star John Travolta at his most staggeringly ineffectual.

...little more than an excuse to insert as much violence, profanity, and sex as possible into a postmodern exercise in futility.

It's easy to dislike what Swordfish is selling... but it makes a compelling pitch.

Boasts one of the most impressive scenes of utter destruction in cinematic history to date.

Techno tosh, but fitfully great fun all the same.

[resena en castellano]

Begins as an involving heist/hacker thriller and ends as a muddled, incoherent mess.

A pesar de algunas cosas notorias en su aspecto visual, no deja de ser una mas del genero