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Swordfish

Today, Mar 26

Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights (meaning arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating, the movie starts after midnite)!

Today, Mar 26 @ 9:15 pm: Introduced by The Flop House hosts Dan McCoy & Stuart Wellington

Director: Dominic Sena Run Time: 99 min. Format: 35mm Rating: R Release Year: 2001

Starring: John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Sam Shepard, Vinnie Jones

Swordfish is a collision of rock-dumb early 2000’s action aesthetics with this new thing called “the internet” (ever heard of it?). A menacing John Travolta pressures good-hearted hacker Hugh Jackman into helping him heist 10 billion for the government – but is that all he wants?

You haven’t lived until you’ve seen Jackman’s version of hacking, which involves a surprising amount of dancing and red wine. Meanwhile, Travolta takes his first steps into “shaved head cackling villainy” (his main late-career mode) and Halle Berry gets a rumored extra $500k for cinema’s most gratuitous topless scene. Directed by Dominic Sena who went from Janet Jackson music videos to Gone in 60 Seconds to this, and written by the man responsible for both the worst Die Hard movie AND the worst Wolverine movie, Swordfish may not earn your respect, but it’s a lot of goofy fun.

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