Swordfish

Action, Adventure

John Travolta	Gabriel Shear
Hugh Jackman	Stanley Jobson
Halle Berry	Ginger
Don Cheadle	Agent Roberts
Vinnie Jones	Marco
Sam Shepard	Senator Reisman
Drea de Matteo	Melissa
Rudolph Martin	Axl Torvalds
Zach Grenier	Assistant Director Joy
Camryn Grimes	Holly

Director	Dominic Sena
Producer	Jonathan D. Krane; Joel Silver
Writer	Skip Woods

Director Dominic Sena follows up his stylish action film Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) with this high-tech thriller. John Travolta stars as Gabriel Shear, a charismatic spy who plots to steal a multi-billion-dollar fortune in illegal government funds. In order to make his scheme work, however, Gabriel needs some help from a computer hacker, which is where Stanley Jobson (Hugh Jackman) comes in. Stanley has been paroled from prison after serving a lengthy sentence for penetrating the FBI's cyber-surveillance operations. Issued a restraining order that keeps him away from computers and living penniless in a trailer park, Stanley wants only to be reunited with his daughter Holly, who's in the custody of his ex-wife, now remarried to a pornographer. Gabriel and his partner Ginger (Halle Berry) offer Stanley the chance to get his child back in exchange for his help, but the hacker soon realizes he's a pawn in a larger operation than the high-tech bank heist he thought he was perpetrating. In the meantime, a dedicated federal agent (Don Cheadle), the same man who once arrested Stanley, is trying to expose Gabriel's operation. Swordfish also stars Sam Shepard and Zach Grenier. — Karl Williams