Swordfish [HD DVD] by Dominic Sena, starring John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Sam Shepard: DVDNear.com

Swordfish [HD DVD]

Swordfish [HD DVD]
by Dominic Sena

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Actor: Don Cheadle, Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, John Travolta, Sam Shepard
Director: Dominic Sena
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Paul Cameron
Editor: Stephen E. Rivkin
Producer: Bruce Berman
Producer: Jim Van Wyck
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-02
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video

Movie Reviews of Swordfish [HD DVD]

Movie Review: Amazing on HD-DVD!
Summary: 5 Stars

I was able to do an A and B comparison of Swordfish on DVD and HD-DVD by switching from one to the other on my TV.

The DVD's colours were off. There was too much green and blue in the picture and not enough red, which made the whole movie over saturated with those colours and gave flesh tones an unrealistic look. Colour bleeding was also evident on certain scenes. Futhermore, the image was soft and blurred. The soundtrack was good but seemed to lack an umph feel to it.

Switching to HD-DVD, what a difference Colours are accurate, flesh tones are natural and there is no evidence of colour bleeding. The image was very sharp and this was with the sharpness on my TV turned completely off. The Dolby Digital Plus track was bumpin'. It was extremely directional and powerful with my subwoofer getting a good workout.

HD-DVD has arrived, and Swordfish does a great job showing off what HD-DVD can do.

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Summary of Swordfish [HD DVD]

When the DEA shut down its dummy corporation operation codenamed SWORDFISH in 1986, they had generated $400 million which they let sit around; fifteen years of compound interest has swelled it to $9.5 billion. A covert counter-terrorist unit called Black Cell, headed by the duplicitious and suave Gabriel Shear, wants the money to help finance their raise-the-stakes vengeance war against international terrorism, but it's all locked away behind super-encryption. He brings in convicted hacker Stanley Jobson, who only wants to see his daughter Holly again but can't afford the legal fees, to slice into the government mainframes and get the money.

DVD Features:
Deleted Scenes
Documentary

Swordfish is a superficial movie, so let's address the superficial facts: Halle Berry was well paid to bare her breasts in this gratuitous cyber-action thriller, and while Berry's many fans will enjoy a cheap drool at the actress's expense, her brief topless scene doesn't justify this insipid parade of glossy violence from the director of 2000's Gone in 60 Seconds. Add yet another notch in John Travolta's bad-movie belt, and you've got Hollywood bankruptcy in full blossom. Go ahead, marvel at director Dominic Sena's biggest money shot--a 360-degree pan as a robbery hostage is blown to bits by a bomb that pelts a surrounding SWAT squad with deadly ball bearings.

The plot, as if it matters: Travolta's a slick, self-appointed antiterrorist who recruits a top-flight computer hacker (Hugh Jackman) to transfer a $9.5 billion government slush fund into a cluster of secret accounts. Berry's the curvaceous bait who lures Jackman into the scheme; Don Cheadle's an FBI agent hot on their tails; and an obligatory subplot turns Jackman's daughter (Camryn Grimes) into an innocent bargaining chip. By the time a hostage transport bus is airlifted in the film's not-so-thrilling climax, Swordfish will hold your passive attention or put you to sleep--it all depends on your tolerance for Sena's brand of derivative bloodlust. It's pornography of a sort, and efficiently mechanical, but you can bet good money that Berry and her costars didn't cash their paychecks proudly. --Jeff Shannon

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