Rogue agent Gabriel Shear is determined to get his mitts on $9 billion stashed in a secret Drug Enforcement Administration account. He wants the cash to fight terrorism, but lacks the computer skills necessary to hack into the government mainframe. Enter Stanley Jobson, a n'er-do-well encryption expert who can log into anything.
Stunts
Bus helicopter hostage swing is genuinely bananas practical work.
Acting
Travolta's villain monologue about cinema history.
Visual Effects
Halle Berry explosion freeze-frame: spectacularly terrible.
Director
Dominic Sena
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The infamous $500K bonus for Halle Berry's topless scene was allegedly because she backed out of another film; she donated it to charity.
Released June 2001, its terrorist-as-antihero plot became deeply uncomfortable three months later; the film tanked partly from bad timing.
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