{"id":12177,"date":"2007-03-07T04:05:07","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T09:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=12177"},"modified":"2007-03-07T04:05:07","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T09:05:07","slug":"firewall-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/07\/firewall-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Firewall (2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"jb9pacquejviepqa\"<\/a>For shame, it\u2019s finally come down to this. It\u2019s time to admit Harrison Ford\u2019s prowess as an action star has past. How he plans the ever continuous shoot of \u201cIndiana Jones 4\u201d I\u2019ll never know. \u201cFirewall\u201d is a healthy indicator that Ford just can\u2019t handle it anymore. And it\u2019s a pretty good indicator that Ford also hasn\u2019t made a watchable film in a good while. The worst aspect of \u201cFirewall\u201d is that we\u2019ve seen this a thousand times. And a thousand more times. There\u2019s your poor workaday shlub taken hostage in his own home. And the checklist: Family disharmony, check! Spunky oldest daughter, check! Wise doting wife, check! Wide eyed youngest child who plays a big role in the climax, check!<\/p>\n

Do all the events unite this family to beat the bad guys? You bet they do. \u201cFirewall\u201d is yet another in a million of these cheesy thrillers, except this time, the man is the victim, while his wife attempts to outdo the hostages inside. La dee da. And worst of all, the film can\u2019t force good performances from a great cast. Bettany is a typical British villain, Virginia Madsen is a character too smart to be realistic, or believable, Ford plays this role in his sleep, while Alan Arkin and Robert Patrick are sadly pissed away in a boring sub-plot. And of course let\u2019s not forget the villains who can corrupt Jack\u2019s home, know everything about him and his family right down to their allergies, yet can\u2019t quite figure out that understanding the bank would gain more of a purpose.<\/p>\n

But then, without common sense, Harrison Ford wouldn\u2019t be in this. We\u2019d be robbed of Madsen being the wise maum of the family outwitting the evil dastardly men, we\u2019d miss Bettany\u2019s character feeding peanut cookies to a boy with a peanut allergy sans the violence, and we\u2019d miss Harrison Ford who looks hanged over and out of breath most of the time. Ford is at his worst here, mumbling about eighty percent of his lines, while the dialogue he has playing off the villains consists of him literally growling. \u201cYou won\u2019t see a dime,\u201d he growls while deleting money from a Swiss bank account the villains possess.<\/p>\n

They can\u2019t break into a bank, and they can\u2019t protect their own bank accounts, then what the hell is the point of watching this movie? Ford though is awful. He often sounds like an old Prospector committing the usual one-liners we\u2019ve seen in these flicks. \u201cDon\u2019t hurt my family, I\u2019ll give you anything you want,\u201d and the old chestnut, \u201cWe\u2019re playing by my rules, now, asshole.\u201d You go, Indiana Solo! Sheesh, I almost expected him to mutter \u201cDag Nabbit!\u201d while pumping his fist in the air at some point. Con Sarnit. \u201cFirewall\u201d is a bust, mainly because it\u2019s such a vapid vehicle for every single cast member that it\u2019s difficult to actually enjoy. Characters are stock, situations rehashed, and the ultimate resolution is horrible. Ford, call it a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For shame, it\u2019s finally come down to this. It\u2019s time to admit Harrison Ford\u2019s prowess as an action star has past. How he plans the ever continuous shoot of \u201cIndiana Jones 4\u201d I\u2019ll never know. \u201cFirewall\u201d is a healthy indicator that Ford just can\u2019t handle it anymore. And it\u2019s a pretty good indicator that Ford […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,240,302,338,447,1087],"class_list":["post-12177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-crime","tag-drama","tag-f","tag-harrison-ford","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}