Swordfish
Last night, I had the need for some Sunday night diversion from worrying about the Monday morning work funk. I looked through the DVD database (I wrote some on-line code for the better half’s extensive DVD collection) and found Swordfish, an action flick with lots of firearms and blowing shit up.
The movie stars Hugh Jackman (a computer ’super’ hacker), John Travolta (a ruthless operator in a secret Government anti-terror operation) , Halle Berry (works for Travolta’s character) and Don Cheadle (a cyber crimes lawman).
The first scenes are of a siege in a world bank where Travolta’s men have placed C4 explosives and ball bearings around a bunch of hostages. Rigged with proximity fuses, these human ‘Claymore mines’ are set to blow if they are taken outside of a certain area. At this point the worst thing happens when an insistent lawman drags a female hostage outside of the bank area - the ensuing explosion scene was nothing short of awesome.
The scene then flashes back in time to find Jackman living as trailer trash practicing his golf swing from the rooftop of his broken-down POS trailer. Halle Berry then shows up and more fun begins.
I won’t get into all of the details, but there was almost non-stop action, guns, intrigue, cyber hacking, a flying bus, missiles and plenty of other stuff to relieve the Sunday night blahs.
- Heckler & Koch MP5
- Remington 700
- M40 sniper rifle
- Heckler & Koch UMP
- M16 rifle series
- Beretta M92F
- FN Minimi
- Sig Sauer P220 pistol series
- Heckler & Koch USP
- Heckler & Koch G36
- Z-M Weapons LR 300
- Walther PPK
- Smith & Wesson 4006
