Firewall

Review by Jason Donner

Ask not for whom the bell toll, it tolls for Harrison Ford.

Firewall is the latest movie for this aged action star and, like my car, Ford managed to creek and knock his way through the paces but ultimately, I know his time is nigh. Everyone knows his time is nigh... but, darnit, we're just so attached to him that we don't want to trade him in for an older model - at least not until one last grand road trip.

Harrison Ford is Jack Stanfield, a Seattle-based network security chief for a national chain of banks. Sufficed to say, Jack is a party animal and a half. Jack also has a great family who love and admire him.

So, you know that some crook is going to come along and use his family against him to make him beat his own security system and embezzle a hundred thousand dollars or else he can kiss his family goodbye.

This is a pretty predictable and forgettable movie. I made the mistake of waiting a week before I wrote my review and now I'm really regretting it because I remember so very little about it.

What I do remember is that this is yet another one of those movies that masquerades as a smart thriller while its main character makes the most lame-brained and reckless decisions possible. Personally, if I was in this guy's family, I don't know if I would ever speak to him again based on how much he seems to value a hundred thousand of someone else's money over the lives of his own brood.

Harrison! Just let the guy have his money, send him on his way, and report it afterward!

Firewall is a formula movie with a lazy and predictable plot and with "twists" that you see coming from a mile away. You're supposed to root for Harrison Ford, but you spend the largest amount of time feeling sorry for the old guy and hoping that he doesn't break a hip before Indiana Jones 4 happens.

At least Arnold Schwarzenegger had the good sense to know when to retire from action movies.

Bong. Bong. Bong.