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Rating:  - Intense, entertaining, but not very plausible
Firewall is an exciting, entertaining film if you just let yourself go and
immerse yourself into its plot without having to convince youself that its
believable, that anything is possible even though there is a one in 500 billion probability that something like this could happen. This is an identity theft genre film taken to the extreme. There are other films that deal with identity theft that are more believable, for instance The Net, starring Sandra Bullock. I'm naturally cynical, I suppose, but I kept asking myself, how could the bad guy in this film expect that he could possibly get away with this. This plot could have been more believable that if a terrorist group plotted to carry something out like this to fund their other terrorist operations rather than some greedy, murderous fiend who wanted to live a life of luxury on a South Sea Island. Other than that, there were enough elements that kept me interested enough to see it through to the end. However, I doubt that I would ever want to watch it again. Dan Casey
Rating:  - Stinker.
Even Harrison Ford couldn't save this stinker of a movie.
The wife and children of Jack Stanfield (Ford), VP of bank security, are kidnapped and held as ransom. They will be killed unless Jack cracks his own bank's security system and hands the kidnappers millions of dollars. (Yawn.)
Harrison hams it up, gives us plenty of his jaw-clenching grimaces and hard looks, but he can't pull this over-used plot out of the mud.
Sigorney Weaver's alien has more character depth than the villain played by Paul Bettany. His evil facial expression becomes tiresome and laughable within ten minutes of his entrance.
Odd that Jack (Harrison) had no security measures for himself or his family, yet his dog had a global tracker in his collar. How convenient when Jack needed to track down his kidnapped family and save the day. Oh, please, spare me the white-knuckle tension of this "exciting thriller".
There was nothing new in this flick. Everything is a cut-and-paste, carbon copy of other movies. Dull. Boring. Even the ending was predictable.
Rating:  - Too Good To Miss
Firewall was great and of course, Harrison Ford never lets you down with a great performance. This is my second purchase of the same movie due to the fact I lent it to so many people and someone obviously never retuned it back to me. Buy it and keep it!!!
Rating: - Another winner featuring Harrison Ford
Within the last week I have seen two different "the bad guys have kidnapped my family" flicks. Where Cellular was very uneven, with points where I was just ready to give up, Firewall was a great little thriller. Ford's character is a network security expert who faces a choice between handing over millions of dollars or having his family killed.
There are at least one or two moments where the movie takes a left turn which really keeps the action moving along. Playing a great supporting role is 24's Chloe, Mary Lynn Rajskub. Fans of action thrillers and/or Harrison Ford will most certainly enjoy Firewall.
Rating:  - Harrison Ford fan
People who felt this movie was formulaic need to let go and be more in-the- movie, so to speak. If you're a Harrison Ford fan, you'll enjoy this movie; even if you're not (like me), you'll enjoy this movie.
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