Firewall ( Harrison Ford)

Directed by
Richard Loncraine

Writing credits ( WGA)
Joe Forte (written by)

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Genre: Crime / Drama / Thriller

Tagline: Everything He loves Is About To Be Used Against Him.

Plot Outline: With his family held for ransom, the head security executive for a global bank is commanded to loot his own business for millions in order to ensure his wife and children's safety. He then faces the demanding task of thwarting the kidnapper's grand scheme, which makes him look guilty of embezzlement.

User Comments: At least it was better than Air Force One

User Rating: 5.7/10 (4,831 votes

Also Known As:
The Wrong Element (USA) (working title)
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for some intense sequences of violence, and for some language.
Runtime: 105 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color Widescreen
Sound Mix: DTS / Dolby Digital / SDDS
Certification: Netherlands:12 / Portugal:M/12 / Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) / Ireland:15A / USA:PG-13 (certificate #42379) / South Korea:12 / Philippines:R-13 / Brazil:16 / Singapore:PG / Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) / Argentina:13 / Canada:PG (Ontario) / India:UA / Australia:M / Sweden:15 / Malaysia:U / Finland:K-15 / UK:12A

Trivia: It rained very little during the "rain days" in rainy Vancouver, and so up to six water trucks were used to make "rain" and wet down streets.

Goofs: Continuity: In the beginning of the film when Jack attends a meeting he is sitting in an armchair of high back-support-type. When the angle changes he suddenly sits in another chair and the first one is standing next to him.

Quotes: Jack Stanfield: Thanks, thanks for everything, you can have your job back.

User Comments:

There is now practically a subgenre of films in which the protagonist's family is kidnapped and the bad guys use that leverage to get him or her to perform some misdeed. Nick of Time, Hostage, and Red Eye all fit the bill. Firewall borrows not so much from these as it does from a television version of this scenario: The first season of 24. In addition to the premise, it borrows the technology (video and audio surveillance of our hero), a current cast member as the lead's assistant (Mary Lynn Rajskub), and even the main character's first name. Sadly, in gathering all these elements, Firewall fails to learn any of the lessons of the show it pilfers from.

Jack Stanfield (Harrison Ford) is the prosperous head of security at a Seattle bank. His wife, Beth, (an utterly wasted Virginia Madsen) is a successful architect who designed their gorgeous home. They have two lovely stereotypical kids and a dog, and in our first five minutes with them just about every major plot point of the film is telegraphed in 28-point blinking bold script.

Enter new client Bill Cox (Paul Bettany), who, it turns out, has delayed Jack from getting home just so his cohorts can go all home invasion on Jack's family. Cox demands that Jack help him rob the bank electronically, sending him back to work the next day fitted with the aforementioned surveillance gear.

Needless to say, things don't go quite as well as the robbers expected, Jack has a few ideas of his own about who's stealing what, and we have ourselves a movie.

Madsen seems particularly underused, given little to do but tell her kids to pretend they're somewhere else instead of trying to figure out how to get the hell out of the house she designed. Ford puts on his trademark furrowed brow of righteous indignation until you're ready for him to yell, "Get off my server!" but the most impressive bit of acting he does is to convincingly speak techno-babble. Bettany does his best Evil British Guy, but fails to convey menace.

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