Use a computer, go to prison. The terms of Stanley Jobson's (Hugh Jackman) parole are clear. Yet a £10-million payday awaits the superhacker if he takes on a job masterminded by a charismatic covert agent - the daring electronic theft of a government slush fund codenamed Swordfish. John Travolta plays the suave spy Gabriel Shear, who, with the help of his the sizzling partner Ginger (Halle Berry), lures Stanley into their clandestine world where cyber-crime is the 21st-century breaking and entering. Vinnie Jones pulls the punches and Don Cheadle is the FBI agent determined to bring them down.