Swordfish [Blu-ray]

Director: Dominic Sena Dominic Sena

Overview

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.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/26/2006
UPC:	0012569828490
Original Release:	2001
Rating:	R
Source:	Warner Home Video
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:39:00
Sales rank:	14,242

Special Features

2 alternate endings; Commentary by director Dominic Sena; HBO first look: Swordfish; Effects in focus: the flying bus; Planet Rock club reel music video; Swordfish: in conversation: cast/crew interviews; Theatrical trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

John Travolta	Gabriel Shear,Hostage,Hostage,Hostage
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Don Cheadle	Agent J.T. Roberts
Halle Berry	Ginger Knowles
Sam Shepard	Senator James Reisman
Vinnie Jones	Marco
Drea de Matteo	Melissa
Jason Christopher	Club Kid
Zachary Grenier	Assistant Director Bill Joy
Rudolf Martin	Axl Torvalds,Axl Torvalds
Camryn Grimes	Holly Jobson
Angelo Pagán	Torres
Chic Daniel	SWAT Leader
Kirk Woller	Axl's Lawyer
Carmen Argenziano	Agent
Tim DeKay	Agent
Laura Lane	Helga
Tait Ruppert	Ad Agency Executive
Craig Braun	Coroner
William Mapother	Gabriel's Crew
Ilia Volok	Gabriel's Crew
Jonathan Fraser	Gabriel's Crew
Shawn Woods	Gabriel's Crew
Leo Lee	Gabriel's Crew
Marina Black	Hostage
Kerry Kletter	Hostage
Ryan Wulff	Hostage
Dana Hee	Hostage
Denney Pierce	Hostage
Jeff Ramsey	Hostage
Joey Box	Hostage
Debbie Evans	Hostage
Tim Storms	Hostage
Jonathan Pessin	Club Kid
Scott Burkholder	FBI Geek
Mark Soper	FBI Geek
Craig Lally	Customs Agent
Rusty McClennon	Customs Agent
Mark Riccardi	Customs Agent
Debbie Entin	Helga's Friend
Natalia Sokolova	Helga's Friend
Anika Poitier	Helga's Friend
Nick Loren	Dark Suit
Tom Morris	Policeman
Michael Arias	Policeman
Richard Householder	Policeman
Timothy Omundson	Agent Thomas
Astrid Veillon	Bank Executive
Brenda Eimers	Holly's Teacher
Dean Duval	Security Guard
Dean Rader-Duval	Security Guard
Pete Anthony	Conductor
Paul Oakenfold	Composer
Christopher Young	Composer
Paul Okenfold	Composer

Technical Credits

Dominic Sena	Director
Paul Winze	Producer
Joel Silver	Producer
Jonathan Krane	Producer
James Van Wyck	Executive Producer
Bruce Berman	Executive Producer
Mike Sasgen	Special Effects
William Pancake	Special Effects
Troy Gilbert	Stunts
Eddie Braun	Stunts
Ray Lykins	Stunts
Jay Caputo	Stunts
Christian Fletcher	Stunts
Darren Prescott	Stunts
Scott Rogers	Stunts
David Kilde	Stunts
Ben Bray	Stunts
Leo Creer Jr.	Stunts
Bobby Ore	Stunts
Tim Rigby	Stunts
Francine Morris	Stunts
Jim Hart	Stunts
Kevin Scott	Stunts
Bobby Huber	Key Grip
Kurt Grossi	Key Grip
Frank Montesanto	Key Grip
Digital.Art.Media	Special Effects
Bruce Kuroyama	Special Effects
R. Terry Tjelmeland	Special Effects
Chris Howell	Stunts
Kevin Jackson	Stunts
Gilbert Combs	Stunts
Scott Cook	Stunts
Frank Lloyd	Stunts
Mark Hicks	Stunts
Monte Perlin	Stunts
Susan J. Purkhiser	Stunts
Leigh Semas	Stunts
Annie Ellis	Stunts
Richie Gaona	Stunts
G. Dhiensuwana	Key Grip
Joe Ramsey	Special Effects
James Camomile	Special Effects
Pat Huggins	Special Effects
David Fletcher	Special Effects
Chris Brenczewski	Special Effects
Morgan Guynes	Special Effects
Tom Dewier	Stunts
Steve Ito	Stunts
Vladimir Orlov	Stunts
Mark Norby	Stunts
Lane Leavitt	Stunts
Norbert Phillips	Stunts
Mike Justus	Stunts
Bill Young's Precision Driving Team	Stunts
Steve Wolke	Special Effects
Mike Roundy	Special Effects
Robert Henderson	Special Effects
Phil Chong	Stunts
Peter T. Stader	Stunts
Tony Brubaker	Stunts
Mark Chadwick	Stunts
Eileen Weisinger	Stunts
Richard Burden	Stunts
Chris Palermo	Stunts
Dave Thompson	Stunts
Dane Davis	Sound/Sound Designer
Edward Tise	Sound Mixer,Sound/Sound Designer
Dan Cracchiolo	Producer
Jim Van Wyck	Executive Producer

Editorial Reviews

A wildly improbable but fast-moving high-tech thriller, Swordfish provides top-billed John Travolta with his most colorful character since Pulp Fiction. Playing a rogue CIA operative prosecuting his own private war against international terrorists, Travolta gets most of the movie’s juiciest lines and chews the scenery whenever he can. But hunky Hugh Jackman very nearly steals the film as the brilliant computer hacker who reluctantly helps facilitate a multibillion-dollar heist, the funds from which are needed to finance Travolta’s covert campaign. Halle Berry is also first-rate as a silky seductress who could be either one of Travolta’s most trusted assistants or (as she tells Jackman) a Treasury agent working undercover to expose him. Deception abounds in Hitchcockian proportions; many of Swordfish's characters seem to be operating at cross-purposes, and neither Jackman nor the viewer will know exactly whom to trust. Director Dominic Sena (Gone in 60 Seconds) doesn’t go overboard with mindless action but saves most of his thrills for a stomach-churning climax in which a bus crammed with hostages and explosives is airlifted above a city skyline. It’s a dazzling sequence that brings this cleverly formulated caper film to a memorable and satisfying close. Sena provides a commentary for the DVD, which also includes two behind-the-scenes documentaries and two alternate endings.