When most moviegoers look at Harrison Ford they see a guy who knows how to pick great movies. Han Solo in Star Wars, Indiana in Indiana Jones, Jack Ryan in Clear and Present Danger, and Dr. Richard Kimble in The Fugitive. Hell, even his Quinn Harris in Six Days Seven Nights was good.
However, even Harrison Ford is known for his flops. Have we already forgotten about films like Hollywood Homicide?
The only problem is that Firewall could be the first drama/thriller that is a real miss for Ford and another reason he should get Lucas cracking on Indiana Jones IV.
Firewall Review
The good people over at AICN have posted another early review for the upcoming film Firewall starring Harrison Ford, Paul Bettany and Virginia Madsen.
No, the hardest reviews you ever have to write are the reviews for movies like Firewall. Movies that are really neither good nor bad – movies that never bored you, or never made you check your watch, but also never excited you. Movies that are like the police procedural you end up watching while your wife is still getting ready to go out. That’s Firewall.
Firewall is your typical, by the numbers Hollywood thriller with nothing special, nothing new and nothing really worth mentioning. But that’s not to say it’s bad. Really, it’s not. It’s just plain, vanilla, pedestrian filmmaking. It never does anything wrong - there are no bad moments, no terrible dialog to speak of, no flights of fantasy that attempt to ignore the laws of physics. And there are a few, well delivered, interesting moments. But despite being a thriller, it falls short of actually being very thrilling. It’s formulaic and paint by numbers most of the way through – but never so much that it telegraphs what’s going to happen next.
Well, Firewall was once a film I was hoping to see this upcoming Friday and now it looks like I better seek other options.
Firewall Poster
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