Firewall (2006)
Average Rating: 4.6/10
Reviews Counted: 153
Fresh: 29 | Rotten: 124
Harrison Ford's rote performance brings little to this uninspired techno-heist film whose formulaic plot is befuddled with tedious and improbable twists.
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 42
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 36
Harrison Ford's rote performance brings little to this uninspired techno-heist film whose formulaic plot is befuddled with tedious and improbable twists.
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A businessman becomes the last line of defense for his family and his business in this thriller. Jack Stanfield (Harrison Ford) is an upper-echelon technology executive at Landrock Pacific Bank, a leading financial institution based in Seattle. Stanfield oversees security for Landrock, and has made sure that their online banking services are the best-protected in the world, and that the bank's data is safe from hackers and other intruders. However, Stanfield finds out the hard way that his
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Cast
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Harrison Ford
Jack Stanfield -
Paul Bettany
Bill Cox -
Virginia Madsen
Beth Stanfield -
Mary Lynn Rajskub
Janet Stone -
Robert Patrick
Gary Mitchell -
Robert Forster
Harry Romano -
Alan Arkin
Arlin Forester -
Carly Schroeder
Saran Stanfield -
Jimmy Bennett
Andy Stanfield -
Candus Churchill
Betty -
Brenda Crichlow
Bank Teller -
Vincent Gale
Willy -
Richard Hendery
Security Guard -
Eric Keenleyside
Alan Hughes -
Vince Vieluf
Pim -
Kevin Mundy
Video Surveillance Tech... -
Kett Turton
Vel -
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Jennifer Kitchen
Wendy -
Matthew Currie Holmes
Bobby -
Ty Olsson
Airport Traffic Cop -
Ona Grauer
Waitress -
Zahf Paroo
Ravi -
Michael Finn
Bank Employee #2 -
Beverly Breuer
Sandra -
Elizabeth Thai
Janet's Neighbor -
Andrew McNee
Doorman -
David Lewis
Rich -
Ken Tremblett
Bob -
Gail Ann Lewis
Bank Employee #1 -
Pat Jenkinson
Laurie -
Rebecca Robbins
Girlfriend
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All Critics (165) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (31) | Rotten (128) | DVD (26)
Harrison Ford is outshone by his costars in this crisp, conventional thriller.
Top CriticIts formulaic moves seem particuarly tired.
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.
You've seen this movie a dozen times.
This is one of the dopiest plans in the history of evil genius plans.
Firewall is barely worth seeing, despite its above-average cast.
The movie is so disposable that you won't remember you've seen it.
Harrison Ford turns to action heroism again. Teens and up.
Another edge-of-your-seat, roller coaster ride from a matinee idol everybody loves to root for.
A solid ensemble almost saves Firewall, but, in the end, it goes up in campy flames.
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.
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.
It's weak career choices like these and their inevitable box office failure that make the media and the industry think that Ford is over.
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.
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