Firewall
I love Harrison Ford. Always have and probably always will. But yes, you have seen this movie before. The question is does it bother you?
Do I want someting new and better from Ford? Do I want him to stop playing the same character over and over again? Yes, of course I do, but that doesn’t mean I don’t get a kick out of watching him do what he’s done best.
In Firewall, Harrison Ford play a bank security manager, whose family is kidnapped and held for ransome. Pretty simple plot and nothing we haven’t seen from him or others before.
Others of note in the film are Virginia Madsen as Harrison’s wife, who played a fine mother/wife in distress, but seemed pretty underutilized.
Also appearing here is Paul Bettany who place a nice villian. I like Paul Bettany and have enjoyed his movies and this is no exception. I expect to continue to see more and more of him as his career grows.
The movie itself is rather run of the mill. Nothing fancy or suprising going on here. It’s hard to build an exciting scene in a film where most of the action takes place on a computer.
Of note though would be the final confrontation between Paul Bettany and Harrison Ford in a fight that suprised me with its brutality. It was almost as if the film makers took all of the humanity/emotion that was missing from the computer hacking scenes and put it into the final fight of the film.
All in all, it was nice to have another Harrison Ford action movie to hit the cinema, but here’s hoping that his next few movies stretch his acting a bit and show us something new.
Except for Indy IV. I’m ready and waiting.
