Firewall
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Review #31 of 365
Film: Firewall [PG-13] 100 minutes
WIP: $8.00
When 1st Seen: 10 February 2006
Where Viewed: United Artists Twin Peak Mall 10, Longmont, CO
Time: 1:20 p.m.
Review Dedicated To: Maxwell O. from Des Moines, IA
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For all intents and purposes, Firewall, starring Harrison Ford and Virginia Madsen should have been a W.I.P. $10-12 movie minimum. What sank it? The preview gives away too much of the plot so you already know the major and most crucial twist to the plot—knowing it, sorry, but it ruins half the movie. For this, the marketing department who approved the preview must be docked points. The other sinker was the lack of follow through in some areas of the plot. For this, the director must be docked—more on the plot deficiencies later.
The film begins with some very important footage interspersed with the credits, I urge close attention. From there, we meet the Stanfield family of Seattle, WA: Jack (Harrison Ford), Beth (Virginai Madsen), the daughter Sarah (Carly Schroeder), and the son Andrew (Jimmy Bennett). From every angle, they are a media-perfect, two working parents, that celebrates each week with a Pizza Night dinner. Jack, head of security for a local bank, even takes time each evening to play games and interact with his kids. As bad luck would have it, their utopia is shattered when Bill Cox (Paul Bettany) enters the picture with a plan to steal $100,000,000 from Jack’s bank. Bill is no small time hood, he has very carefully planned every detail of this crime down to the last detail—except one, he doesn’t know that all of the needed computer terminals in the data room have been removed during the bank’s merger—small details. In any case, his intention is to steal money and he’s planned this crime in every conceivable way—except that he’s hired no such great henchmen, he vastly underestimates the Stanfield family members, and he apparently has never seen Raiders of the Lost Ark—so he does not know that you just don’t mess with Indiana Jones. Unfortunately, this incongruity between the fastidious planning on one hand and the inability to control the circumstances on the other makes for a somewhat hard to believe story and some untidy plot points. Ultimately, Firewall turns out to be a bit disappointing a mid-range thriller due to the issues mentioned. I was really looking forward to this movie; and, perhaps, my hopes were just too high.
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