Swordfish Film Review Review
... be either a patriot or a bad guy, a free-lance, Ginger’s lover, Ginger’s target…” Don Cheadle plays an FBI agent, and is one of the few characters who “you can count on to be more or less who he says he is.” The actors did a fine job of confusing the audience, but this is not always a bad thing. One’s mind is constantly working to decide who is on what side, and who is evil and who is good. Ebert felt that Swordfish had stunning special effects, and included many creative scenes. One scene is of a terrible explosion that appears frozen in time as the camera rotates around the destruction, and another involves a bus being lifted by helicopter atop the city. Passengers can be seen falling to their deaths out the back door of the bus, which makes for an emotional and adrenaline-pumped sequence. Ebert wrote about how the director, Dominic Sena, who also directed Gone in 60 Seconds, could not help himself from including a high-speed vehicle chase. The review by Ebert was very thorough, and it covered everything that I feel should have been covered in a review of such a film as Swordfish. If I had to choose one area that Ebert could have been a bit more thorough on, it would be the plot. He discussed the complexity of the plot more than the plot itself. I was a bit confused by the sentence, “There’s the obligatory scene in which passengers fall to their deaths out the back of the bus—not exploited as well as in Spielberg’s “The Lost World: Jurassic Park,” but good enough.” I had no idea what the word ‘obligatory’ meant until I looked it up. It means “Morally or legally constraining; binding.” I would assume what Ebert meant ...