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Swordfish

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Critics' Reviews

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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
A good movie? Hardly. But more than enough to pass a dog day afternoon.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
It's skillfully mounted and fitfully intriguing, but weaves such a tangled web that at the end I defy anyone in the audience to explain the exact loyalties and motives of the leading characters.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Jay Carr
A high-impact, high-powered mess that raises the bar for over-the-topness.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Mike Clark
So much luck is pressed with an absurdly overblown finale that 60 seconds will likely be Swordfish's shelf life after a couple of noisy opening weekends.Read Full Review »
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Slate: David Edelstein
By the third big climax the audience started to get impatient with the movie's pointless zigs and zags.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
Feels like every other action thriller we've seen in the past three years, only it's more annoying -- and, in some cases, more appalling -- because it's trying so hard to distinguish itself.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
It's hard to say with certainty whether it's insufficient plot or insufficient interpretation that's responsible for Travolta's waxwork performance.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Michael Atkinson
The story -- is just what fills in the gaps between slow-motion fireballs, Matrix-style frozen mayhem, and Halle Berry's notoriously undraped breasts.Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: David Ansen
Nutty paranoid thriller.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
A kind of dirty fairy tale in which people with nasty attitudes inhabit a trash-talking, macho world of fast cars and complaisant women.Read Full Review »
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