Swordfish | John Travolta, Hugh Jackman

Swordfish | John Travolta, Hugh Jackman | Puzzling but Highly Entertaining

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Swordfish

	Swordfish John Travolta, Hugh Jackman Warner Home Video, 2004 average customer review:based on 318 reviews view larger image
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Must have BlueRay DVD

This blue-ray dvd brings all of the already excellent aspects of the original movie to new dimensions with better video and audio quality.

Puzzling but Highly Entertaining

This is a very good movie but a little hard to follow. The actors give great performances. The story works on several levels and that is what makes it stand apart from other films in this genre.

Not worth the price of the breasts

Well given performances by Don Cheadle, John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, and Halle Berry, breasts notwithstanding (the woman does have undeniable sex appeal, and it's in full swing in this flick). The story does have a flaw when Travolta's character interacts with a certain governmental agent - it just doesn't work for me as a motive. Travolta's greed would have been a much better plot line. Jackman gives a fun performance as a dancing (!) hacker who wants to get his daughter back from, for all you Soprano fans, a very drunken and drugged out Drea. I love the music - Paul Oakenfold, who perfectly catches the action and the drama as it unfolds into the magic of misdirection.

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Swordfish

Nice! This is an excellent movie of the type where you start at the end and relive the story (Pulp Fiction style). I often think about this movie but have trouble remembering the name - maybe they should have called it something else. Everyone remembers that Halle Berry "came out" in this movie (her breasts did), and she hasn't looked back since.

Sizing Up the Picture

This is not a review of the movie itself (there are other comments and reviews in this one and the dvd version) but a review of the video transfer of this Blu Ray. This is a good looking transfer in 1080p/VC-1 video, colors are very well saturated, blacks are rock solid and the contrast is really good. The audio is in English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround and encoded at 640kbps. It has a lot of sorround effects specially in the beggining with the 'Matrix'-esque "girl with bomb explodes" sequence. That sequence in particular is the one you can display to show your blu ray player.
The bottom line... it is a nice (but not excellent) action film that will look good in Blu Ray, specially beign one of the first who came out.

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