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>
The scene in which the school bus is swung was actually shot by hiring a group of people to sit in a bus, in front of a blue screen, while they swung the bus from a crane. According to the stunt coordinators, the same effect could have been portrayed for half the cost.
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Goofs
Factual errors:
When Torvalds' passport is checked at the airport, a German "Bundesadler" can be clearly seen inside, even though Torvalds is Finnish and should thus have a Finnish passport.
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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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