I recently watched this movie. The plot is about an ex secret agent from Mossad now secretly controlled by the US government to perform illegal actions in defense of the “American lifestyle” and declaring he is OK to kill a few innocents when that is for the good of everybody else.  This bad guy goes crazy for money and escapes control, killing his angel in the Senate and creating an incident with many victims.  The movie hit the theaters in the US on Jun 2001, three months before the twin towers, but of course that’s a mere coincidence, isn’t it?  And oh, one of the bad guys in the movie – the one who dies first – is called Torvalds, is Finnish and is an hacker sought-after by the FBI for the many international computer-related crimes he commited.  Any resemblance to real events and/or to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

The computer-related stuff in this movie is rendered very badly and no amount of geek slang used in the script can make it better.  On the other hand Halle Berry is astounding – she is the one who makes the movie worthwhile.

Swordfish
USA 2001, by Dominic Sena, Thriller
IMDB 244244

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