Swordfish

(2001)

★ 6.3 IMDb · 3,051 votes

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Year: 2001

Runtime: 99 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Dominic Sena

Cast: Джон Траволта, Хью Джекман, Хэлли Берри, Дон Чидл, Винни Джонс, Сем Шепард, Дреа де Маттео, Рудольф Мартин, Зак Гренье, Camryn Grimes

Plot

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.

When the DEA shut down its dummy corporation operation codenamed SWORDFISH in 1986, they had generated $400 million which they let sit around; fifteen years of compound interest has swelled it to $9.5 billion. A covert counter-terrorist unit called Black Cell, headed by the duplicitious and suave Gabriel Shear, wants the money to help finance their raise-the-stakes vengeance war against international terrorism, but it's all locked away behind super-encryption. He brings in convicted hacker Stanley Jobson, who only wants to see his daughter Holly again but can't afford the legal fees, to slice into the government mainframes and get the money.