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DiscountDelight - Firewall (Widescreen Edition)
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List Price: $28.98
Our Price: $11.00
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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Directed By: Richard Loncraine
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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0012569594104
Format: AC-3
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2006-06-06
Running Time: 104
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2006-02-10
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Summary: Disappointing
Comment: A group of no-name actors capture Ford's family demanding money from his 10 richest clients. The family almost escapes but when they get to the car they can't drive away. The bad guy then tricks Ford's son into eating a cookie with peanuts (he is allergic) and then hides his medicine. Ford is really mad now and steals the bank's money using a scanner from his fax machine and his daughters IPod. The bad guys leave the city but Ford tracks their movement using his dogs GPS collar.
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Summary: Predictable from beginning to end
Comment: Harrison ford is a great actor and he does a decent acting job in this movie. The problem is this plot is the same kidnapping/ransom story taht has been told over and over again. there really wasn't any kind of twist that would make it a unique story, it was just the same story told with a different cast. I guess they figured that since harrison ford was in it the story would appear to be different and better. LOL!!!!!!
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Summary: Nothing NEW here
Comment: The movies good. It would have been better twenty years ago, but audiences are more intelligent these days. Audiences are more familiar with movies these days and you have to do MORE in order to entertain and to impress.
I had heard a review or two say that Harrison Ford was losing his ability to sell an action film, but I strongly disagree. I thought he was very believable and proves that he is STILL one of the strongest movie actors around. In fact, all of the actors did a great job. Virgina Madsen, Paul Bettany, Carly Schroeder, Jimmy Bennett & Mary Lynn Rajskub from "24" were all solid.
The movie, too, moved well. It held my interest but as my review title suggests: there was nothing new here. It was a typical formulaic suspense, kidnap, heist thriller. Twenty years ago, when audiences hadn't seen 100 movies just like this, it probably would have faired better.
Which brings me to my BIGGEST complaint of the film. The movie makers had the plot wrinkle, the film idea that in my opinon is the KISS of DEATH. And it showed. The bad guys kidnapped the FAMILY. The wife. The 9 year-old son. The 13 year-old daughter. So, why is this the kiss of death? Because throughtout the film, they do numerous things that a real life kidnapper would have killed one of them or at least dismembered or hurt one of them. Instead, the only ones that the kidnapper ever hurts are members of his OWN TEAM! Because Hollywoods mentality IS if you hurt a little kid like that... you'll lose your audience. I say... Bull. But, throughout the film, you just know that the filmmakers aren't gonna have the nuts to hurt one of those kids, so it ruins it.
And believe me. You'll wonder after Jack Stanfield (Harrison Ford) tries to be brave three...four...five times in one day. Why the heck the kidnappers haven't put a bullet in one of his family members yet? Because you know a real life bad guy would. That, to me, was the biggest problem with the film. They didn't dare to be different and the so the film ended up being just another of the same ol' same ol'.
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Summary: Seen this formula before....
Comment: This movie is very formulaic.... The "everyman" good guy, his family is kidnapped by bad guy.... good guy kills bad guy at the end of the movie. When have we seen this process before? This movie shows exactly what is wrong with hollywood nowadays, washed up actors, lack of experience of the topic of the movie and the recycling of old movie plots. If you really want to see this movie, rent it first, and if you want to buy it, wait until the law of supply and demand kicks in (and you can get it at a bargain price). As it is right now, not worth $17.00.
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Summary: Don't mess with my family
Comment: A very good movie. In many aspects it looks like the continuation of Fugitive. Harisson Ford of course is much older in this movie so there are not many stands that include physical action. Still though the movie has a lot of suspence and it really keeps the interest on a very high note. You will get especially involved by the way that the villains use Ford's family to blackmail him. The part with the allergy attack to his little boy is outrageous and it really makes you cheer at the end when he is done away with the bad guys who play really well their part to.
The only thing that I did not like was to see Vince Vieluf who was acting in the Rat race as one of the retarded brothers. He was just not convincing enough as the bad guy in this movie.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Harrrison Ford brings his reliable brand of focused intensity to Firewall, a family-in-peril thriller that fits Ford like a comfortable old sweater. The venerable action star is visibly growing older now, but he's got a quiet, simmering quality here that perfectly suits his role as Jack Stanfield, Vice President of security at a large Seattle bank that's recently upgraded to a state-of-the-art computer security system (resulting in conspicuous Dell product placement throughout the film). Jack's the only one who can safely crack the system, so he's targeted by a would-be robber (Paul Bettany) whose jittery crew of thugs and hackers kidnaps Jack's wife (Sideways star Virginia Madsen), daughter, and young son, threatening to kill them if Jack doesn't transfer $100 million into the robber's secret offshore account. Like Bruce Willis in 2005's Hostage, Ford rises above the film's familiar generic trappings, and British director Richard Loncraine maintains a low-key escalation of tension that keeps Firewall on track toward a routine but satisfying conclusion. Supporting roles for Alan Arkin, Robert Forster and Robert Patrick add little to the film's turnabout plotting, but fans of Mary Lynn Rajskub (better known as ace computer nerd "Chloe" on the hit series 24) will enjoy her performance here as a loyal secretary who factors into Stanfield's bid to outsmart his captors. Firewall may not be an instant Ford classic like The Fugitive, but it's comparable to Ford's 2000 thriller What Lies Beneath in terms of overall intelligence and crowd-pleasing suspense. --Jeff Shannon
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