YMMV / Swordfish

• Best Known for the Fanservice: This movie was the first time Halle Berry went topless on camera. Most people remember this movie for "Halle's Berries" rather than the Xanatos Speed Chess plot.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The film is based on the idea that America just needs to aggressively kill terrorists to stop terrorism. It came out in June, 2001, several months before the attacks of 9/11. In the ensuing War on Terror, the inadequacy of simply killing lots of people to stop terrorism became daily headline news, causing the film to seem rather painfully naive.
• Nightmare Fuel: The terrified expression on the young woman hostage struggling against her would-be rescuers... because she knows full well if they get her twenty feet from the bank she's gonna blow up.
• Signature Scene: If you ask anyone about the first scene that comes to their mind when they think of this movie, the answer will most likely be a variation of "Halle Berry shows off her rack".
• Unintentional Period Piece:
  • The film was released in the very last months before the War on Terror began. After which, it became very clear that fighting terrorism is a lot more complicated than Gabriel's "just kill the bad guys and make sure everybody else gets terrorized into thinking things twice" plan.
  • Gabriel's soul patch was a brief fad of the early 2000s.
  • The film's heavy use of Hollywood Hacking comes from a time before mainstream audiences understood that plugging seven monitors into a computer doesn't make it a supercomputer.
    • It's not that plugging in a bunch of monitors makes it a supercomputer. It's that being able to link seven monitors simultaneously like that could only be done by a very powerful computer of the time.

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