Firewall
‘”Firewall” is [Harrison] Ford’s latest excavation of the family-in-peril thriller, and it is a mostly rote attempt to reboot “The Desperate Hours” — the taut psychological standoff between Humphrey Bogart and Fredric March from 1955 — for the computer age. 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. [..]
You don’t go to a Harrison Ford movie expecting gritty realism, but even by the lowered standards of the modern thriller, what finally causes “Firewall” to collapse is a series of increasingly improbable plot twists. The most laughable of these can’t be discussed without revealing the movie’s climax, but it is accompanied by what is sure to be one of the year’s funniest lines (though not intentionally): “Where are they, Rusty?” Jack asks the family dog, completely serious. “Where have they gone?”
This comes shortly after he uses his daughter’s iPod to hot-wire the bank’s servers, moving $100 million to Cox’s offshore account, while downloading Sharon Stone’s celebrity playlist from iTunes. (OK, he doesn’t really get the playlist, just the $100 million.) [..]’
Also the Firewall trailer.
