| Swordfish |
| Rating: * Director: Dominic Sena Running time: 99 minutes Language: English Now showing |
"Swordfish" is one of those nasty Hollywood flicks that, thankfully, we're not likely to see much of in this post-Sept. 11 world. What are we to make of this movie's money shot, which involves crazed rightwing terrorist John Travolta setting off a bomb strapped to the back of a screaming woman hostage? The shot then tracks, in painstaking detail, the carnage that ensues as dozens of steel ball bearings tear through the lines of police, media and rescue workers on the scene. Shrapnel rips through flesh and steel in fetishistic slow-motion (shot on 200 cameras!) as the 1.5-second explosion is drawn out over two minutes.
John Travolta, Hugh Jackman and Halle Berry in "Swordfish"