Firewall (2006)
19 %
Reviews Counted: 151 Fresh: 29 Rotten:122 Average Rating: 4.6/10
Consensus:
Harrison Ford's rote performance brings little to this uninspired techno-heist film whose formulaic plot is befuddled with tedious and improbable twists.
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Theatrical Release: 2005
Box Office: $48,699,400
Synopsis: Jack Stanfield (Harrison Ford) is an average family man in Seattle who heads up the hi-tech security team at his local bank. But following a seemingly trivial case of identity theft, Jack's life is turned upside-down when he discovers that his wife (Virginia Madsen) and two kids have been... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Harrison Ford, Paul Bettany, Virginia Madsen, Alan Arkin, Beverley Breuer
Director: Richard Loncraine
Screenwriter: Joe Forte
Producer: Armyan Bernstein, Graham Burke, Jeffrey Clifford, Jonathan Shestack
Composer: Alexander Desplat
Screenwriter: Joe Forte
Producer: Armyan Bernstein, Graham Burke, Jeffrey Clifford, Jonathan Shestack
Composer: Alexander Desplat
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11/01/07
Top Critic
Another edge-of-your-seat, roller coaster ride from a matinee idol everybody loves to root for.
05/30/07
A solid ensemble almost saves Firewall, but, in the end, it goes up in campy flames.
03/24/07
Director Richard Loncraine shows no affinity for the nuts and bolts of constructing thrillers, playing out the script's empty threats and chases at a lethargic pace.
03/01/07
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01/20/07
Harrison Ford is outshone by his costars in this crisp, conventional thriller.
10/07/06
Top Critic
There is an air of desperation about Firewall, a sense that Ford needed to make this movie just to keep his face in the public eye, lest we think he had fallen off the planet altogether.
09/22/06
...it's always good to see Ford back in action mode. He lifts a routine film out of total mediocrity by his very presence.
05/31/06
The movie gets a lift from Mary Lynn Rajskub in a glamorized version of her nerd’s wet dream Chloe on 24, which is also better this year with the Chloe quotient pumped up.
05/12/06
Top Critic
The characters spend a lot of time hunched over keyboards tap-tap-tapping away, which isn’t all that suspenseful to watch.
05/12/06
It runs along a time-worn path at a leisurely pace and holds few surprises.
05/03/06
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04/01/06
A formulaic, it’ll-do action-thriller, Firewall does what you’d expect it to well enough but fails to fully exploit the skills of its talented cast -- particularly the leading man.
04/01/06
Something of a throwback to the Harrison Ford thrillers of the 90s, this is an average thriller with the occasional fun moment.
03/30/06
Not that [Harrison Ford] deserves our sympathy. The increasingly wrinkly veteran seems determined to age gracelessly, taking roles he's clearly too old for in a desperate attempt to maintain his leading man status.
03/21/06
Joe Forte's screenplay couldn't be any easier to read if it were on a billboard.
03/17/06
Harrison Ford isn't exactly the kind of guy you might envision as a computer expert, but then again he did make the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs
03/16/06
A generic, rudimentary thriller but shows there is still life left in the old Ford. Madsen, though, needs to beware the 'Curse of Harrison.'
03/14/06
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