Swordfish is a 2001 crime-thriller film, directed by Dominic Sena and starring John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle and Vinnie Jones. The film is an action thriller that was also notable for Halle Berry's first topless scene. The film centers around Stanley Jobson, a ex-con computer hacker who is targeted for recruitment into a bank robbery conspiracy because of his formidable hacking skills. In the United States, the film has received a MPAA rating of R for violence, language, and some sexuality/nudity. The film begins in a restaurant in Los Angeles where a man discusses... Dog Day Afternoon before walking off, with numerous SWAT officers pointing guns at him and a disheveled man following him out. They walk to a nearby building with gunmen and hostages strapped with bombs and ball-bearings. One of the gunmen is killed by a sniper; when the hostage is forcibly taken away, the explosives detonate via a proximity trigger, killing her and others. The film then flashes back four days. Stanley Jobson is a hacker who infected the FBI's Carnivore program with a potent computer virus, delaying its deployment by several years.
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| Release date: | June 4, 2001 |
| Directed by: | Dominic Sena |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 99 Minutes |
| Producer: | Joel Silver, Jonathan D. Krane, Paul Winze |
| Editor: | Stephen E. Rivkin |
| Music by: | Paul Oakenfold, Christopher Young |
| Cinematography: | Paul Cameron |
| Screenplay by: | Skip Woods |
| Estimated budget: | $102,000,000 |
| Genre: | Thriller, Action |