This movie has been made a hundred times since The Desperate Hours struck the formula back in 1955.
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Firewall (2006)
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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.
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... [More]
Starring: Harrison Ford, Paul Bettany, Virginia Madsen, Alan Arkin
Director: Richard Loncraine
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Reviews for Firewall
...this hack job of film doesn't even have the smarts to include or make mention of firewall technology.
02/09/06
Harrison Ford needs a better agent. Or a sharper pair of reading glasses for perusing scripts. He just seems to keep choosing the same tired heroic roles, and ends up coming across as a caricature of his younger self.
02/09/06
Director Richard Loncraine and screenwriter Joe Forte run out of ideas. So they turn to the action-movie mainstays -- guns, fisticuffs and explosions -- in an over-the-top showdown that tries to make up in mayhem what it lacks in credibility.
02/09/06
Coming soon: Harrison Ford as a grandpa seeking revenge in Spam Blocker.
02/09/06
Do Clear and Present Danger or Air Force One ring a bell? If not, get thee to Blockbuster, as those films follow a similar outline to greater effect than does Firewall.
02/09/06
An efficient time-passer at least until the plot starts obsessing over the fate of the family dog.
02/09/06
Top CriticAs a techno-thriller, Firewall fails to surmount the obstacle that plagues such films: How do you make tapping at a computer interesting?
02/09/06
Top CriticIf this be high tech, I'd just as soon have my highly-derived thrillers stick to old-fashioned, smelly, touchy, feely analog plotlines.
02/09/06
Overwritten, crammed full of cliched plot twists, and top-heavy with electronic gadgets and yuppie bling.
02/09/06
Firewall, a thrill-challenged thriller starring Harrison Ford, manages to entertain mildly only because it gives moviegoers ample opportunity to test their action-movie I.Q.
02/09/06
Firewall is an ingenious attempt to update an old plot with new technology, and it is made with competence, skillful acting, and the ability to make us feel cleverer about digital stuff than we really are.
02/09/06
Top CriticFilmmakers who want to make new-style scare-fests should not be thinking old style.
02/09/06
It's the skill of the actors that keeps Firewall anchored in something recognizably human.
02/09/06
Instead of dramatic tension, Firewall makes do with a lot of frantic typing at computer keyboards. It's like watching Microsoft's Service Pack 2 download for nearly two hours.
02/09/06
Top CriticFirewall is a riveting suspense thriller, in the sense that after about an hour and a half of it you're still riveted by the suspense of what exactly is going on.
02/09/06
Director Richard Loncraine and writer Joe Forte inject fatty layers of false leads, techno-babble and dull-witted tension into what is essentially a generic hostage machine.
02/09/06
Top CriticFollows an oft-taken path through undistinguished scripting drearier than its rain-swept Seattle setting and more improbable than snowfall in August.
02/09/06
Firewall is one of those mildly entertaining family hostage movies with Harrison Ford as, of course, the good guy.
02/09/06
Top CriticHad Loncraine done a better job of plundering his own oeuvre, Firewall might have acquired the mojo it so sorely lacks.
02/09/06
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