Swordfish (film) Swordfish (film) Swordfish is a 2001 American action crime thriller film directed by Dominic Sena and starring John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Vinnie Jones and Sam Shepard. The film centers on Stanley Jobson, an ex-con and computer hacker who is targeted for recruitment into a bank robbery conspiracy because of his formidable hacking skills. The film was a slight box office success but was negatively received by critics upon release. Stanley Jobson (Hugh Jackman) is a computer hacker that infected the FBI's Carnivore program with a computer virus. His parole forbids use of computers and the internet.
Vinnie Jones also currently Club President of non-league Soham Town Rangers. In 1998 Vinnie Jones made his film debut in Guy Ritchie's crime comedy "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels", in which he played a mob enforcer, Big Chris. Jones was typecast in similar roles as criminals or villains, including the dapper gun-for-hire "Bullet-Tooth Tony" in Ritchie's 2000 follow up "Snatch". Jones became known to American audiences in the 2000 film remake of "Gone in 60 Seconds", in which he played "Sphinx". Although this was a major role with significant screen time, he only had one line of dialog because his character