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Show WASATCH COUNTY COURIER JUNE 13, 2001 : B3 MOVIE PATIO NOW wa av REVIEW Sp eNIeE The customarily nice thing about Travolta’s career is that after his periodic comebacks with standout roles, he vanishes a turkeys. This time, : Stanley that the wads of cash he'll make from the heist will set things right between him and his little girl. It’s another sign that Pcomputer geeks © should not have famieee lies; if you can Battlefield Earth but .at |] : ; unintentional Hollywood, ; — Travolta’s | ously, they | wee (Gone in 60 dh CeS oe we making a crisp, smart, unconventional thriller. The filmmakers did manage to churn out a taut, captivating opening, with Travolta delivering an amusing diatribe against low Hollywood standards that segues into quite an original take on a hostage scene. that, in Warner Brothers' Swordfish. with though, just : can’t . grasp this reali- Halle Berry, John Travolta and Hugh Jackman director Dominic Sena S ds) ‘1 COU), CER ATED) POR After anh ") for a casual TT Lunch or Dinner Secluded with animal rights, located on approx. 1.72 acres with forever views. 2 water shares, garden and greenhouse, this home is a rare find! Home features approx. 2800 sq. ft., 5 bdrms, 2.5 baths, vaulted great S235 00.4 car garage with heated workshop. Reduced 325,000 in the comfort of our landmark building or READY FOR YOUR OLYMPIC TEAM our outside patio 5 Large Bedrooms e 3.5 Baths ¢ Gourmet Kitchens Approximately 4500 sq. ft. 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Stanley ex-con Swordfish drowns in cliche, implausibility and cryptic little mysteries and misdirections that viewers are supposed to accept as intricate and edgy storytelling. Nothing after the first 10 minutes. of Swordfish is remotely fresh. From its promising start, the movie fades to standard-issue gunplay, car stunts, explosions and computer hacking. The only things that break up that monotony are a whole lot of pseudophilosophical yammering by Travolta and some gratuitous shots of co-star Halle Berry undressing or going oe less. Travolta plays Gabriel Shear a wacko with goofy chin hair and a plan to steal $9.5 billion from a federal drug fund. Gabriel's not greedy; he’s on a patriotic mission, So he: says, to finance counter-strikes against terrorists. . 7 He needs a crack computer hack- Ta few an “Which One Do You Want?” A. Big Stone ty thing. PY after Jackman), Several B. Home Loan times, the : | movie __ references Dog Day Afternoon,” continuing Travolta’s C. Dog Bone long-standing screen fixation with Al Pacino (remember Travolta Call with the correct answer and get a mimick- ing Pacino’s “Attica! Attica!” in Saturday Night Fever?). There was_ opportunity for Swordfish to offer some truly clever twists on that earlier bank-robbery film. But Swordfish gets dumber and dumber and finally crosses into imbecility about the time a bus starts floating around the skyline of downtown Los Angeles. FREE APPRAISAL* with Madison Mortgage! Call 654-LOAN *Free appraisal valid with a home loan closed and funded with Madison Mortage _. Travolta seems perfectly comfortable in this cinematic mess, but X-men colleagues Jackman and Berry wear suspiciously expressions pained Fe Robards for Realty much of the movie. | Don Cheadle also looks none too happy playing a federal agent on Gabriel’s trail. Maybe he was thinking of better times playing a federal ee in Traffic... GRAND VIEW _ Unobstructed views! 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