Swordfish Critic Reviews

A good movie? Hardly. But more than enough to pass a dog day afternoon.Read the full review

It's skillfully mounted and fitfully intriguing, but weaves such a tangled web that at the end I defy anyone in the audience to explain the exact loyalties and motives of the leading characters.Read the full review

A high-impact, high-powered mess that raises the bar for over-the-topness.Read the full review

So much luck is pressed with an absurdly overblown finale that 60 seconds will likely be Swordfish's shelf life after a couple of noisy opening weekends.Read the full review

A half-absorbing, half-ridiculous techno-thriller that often goes too far in search of audience-rousing effects.Read the full review

By the third big climax the audience started to get impatient with the movie's pointless zigs and zags.Read the full review

This lurid thriller comes to life in fits and starts, and then sinks into the bog of its own cleverness once again.Read the full review

A kind of dirty fairy tale in which people with nasty attitudes inhabit a trash-talking, macho world of fast cars and complaisant women.Read the full review

Exhibits rank incompetence on every level.Read the full review