Firewall
Thursday, June 21st, 2007
I think that the title of this movie is a bit misleading. You see, while they do actually show that the main character Jack (Harrison Ford) is a firewall expert it happens in the first 5 minutes. After that, it pretty much goes away. I think a better name of the movie would have been “Relocated Computers” or perhaps even better “Patriot Computer Games” since at times I felt like I was watching Harrision reprise his role in “Patriot Games”. Hmm, now that I think about it, both characters are named Jack…..
Now don’t get me wrong, this was not a bad film. In fact, it was a decent film and kept me interested the whole time. Basically, a network security expert, Jack, has his family taken hostage to force him to help some people rob the bank that he works for. The bad guys have their plan go awry very early on when they find out the computer terminals they needed have been relocated. Now Jack has to figure out a way to get them what they want so his family won’t be killed.
The action never stops in this movie and if you like Harrision Ford you will probably find this movie entertaining enough to watch. But at best, I will call it average.
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