Friday, October 07, 2011
Swordfish
Swordfish is an action movie, with hacking thrown in as an interesting gimmick. A genius hacker is arrested in LA. Meanwhile, another hacker is recruited to a meeting with $100,000 bait. the first hacker was called Torvald, presumably after (the much admired and liked) Linus Torvalds, inventor of the Linux operating system kernel. The second hacker was called Jobson - son of Jobs - Steve Jobs of Apple computer, geddit? These weird name references were not particularly apt, in fact they seemed downright odd and my disbelief lost its delicate suspension and crashed and burned.
Now this recruited hacker, Jobson, is supposed to be the best hacker in the world. The best hacker in the world would have no difficulty in obtaining money, so he wouldn't be living in a trailer park unless he liked it. And he certainly would never get caught. (In the movie Jackman had just been released from jail for hacking offences). You never hear about the best hackers, they are invisible.
So this ruined the realism of the movie somewhat for me. Having said that, Jackman is actually pretty good: he exudes this gritty look that his role ultimately requires.
Swordfish is fun! so better watch it now!!
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