A secretive renegade counter-terrorist co-opts the world's greatest hacker (who is trying to stay clean) to steal billions in US Government dirty money.
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.
Written by Jeff Cross <blackjac_1998@yahoo.com>
Rudolf Martin plays Axl Torvalds, a hacker of some renown in the film. The character is named after Linus Torvalds, a "hacker" in real life, who wrote Linux Kernel, the original code for the open source computer Operating System named after him, Linux. Axl and Linus are both Finnish.
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Goofs
Continuity:
As Gabriel walks away from the trunk of his car and starts firing his machine gun, the trunk is open and has bullet holes. In the next shot (taken from behind the car), the trunk is closed and has no damage.
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Quotes
Stanley:
[Bus busts through set up barracades]
Wait... where are we going? Gabriel:
Ever see the movie "Sugarland Express"?
[Stanley shakes his head]
Gabriel:
Didn't like the way it ended.
[Bus is lifted into the air by a transport helicopter and becomes airborne]
Gabriel:
Everybody hold on! See more »
Crazy Credits
The opening studio logos for Warner Bros and Village Roadshow Productions
flicker as if they were on a problematic computer screen. Other than those
logos and the movie's title, there are no opening credits.
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