2001 · action · crime · thriller
Swordfish
Directed by Dominic Sena1h 39m2001
Rogue agent Gabriel Shear is determined to get his mitts on $9 billion stashed in a secret Drug Enforcement Administration account. He wants the cash to fight terrorism, but lacks the computer skills necessary to hack into the government mainframe. Enter Stanley Jobson, a n'er-do-well encryption expert who can log into anything.
Our read: Swordfish (2001) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · crime · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
- twisty
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