Firewall

Harrison Ford é o pai exemplar e rico da «família perfeita» e agora deve lutar por ela... Um thriller comum americano que pede mais emprestado do que oferece. A primeira metade é muito rotineira, desinteressante e prolongada. A segunda metade torna-se mais dinâmica com a chegada de uma reviravolta, roubada de um certo thriller com Mel Gibson, e mistura boas cenas com «seguranças» clichés. Harrison interpreta Harrison, o vilão de Paul Bettany é surpreendentemente unidimensional. Os outros estão lá só para apoiar. No geral, um filme de género relativamente divertido, às vezes suspenso e às vezes involuntariamente engraçado. Pessoalmente, fiquei satisfeito com o carro antigo e os locais rurais luminosos na sequência final - tanto uma memória nostálgica calorosa das aventuras de Hitchcock, como um contraste agradável com os anteriores visuais de hi-tech (filtro azul). Simplesmente não pode condená-lo por causa dessa última tomada :-) (22/02/2006)

A painless enema with Harrison Ford, who in the next Indiana Jones will fight with a nurse in a nursing home for not emptying his bedpan... (14/09/2006)

I didn’t get to see the end of this (I hope it all worked out ok). The bus arrived at its destination and I had to get off. Paul Bettany’s acting was a little weird and Harrison Ford wasn’t especially impressive (and he looks dumb with that laptop). Otherwise, this is a pretty standard thriller. (13/05/2008)

Exactly the same thing you have seen a thousand and one different ways somewhere else. And at least eight hundred of them were much better. I admit that I expected a comic pastiche unworthy of Harrison Ford. Although it is undoubtedly unworthy of him, it’s not so comical. Unfortunately. Here only one word applies: boring. The first “technical" half is a tired load of nothing, so the unremarkable, average “action" part at the end is a welcome relief as it turns out. A thriller that nobody will enthuse about and that will even insult a couple of people, but as a background for doing something else to I can recommend it. (05/02/2008)

Harrison Ford still has it, there is no doubt about that, I don't see a problem with another Indiana Jones. Unfortunately, Firewall is nothing but a routine genre stew that strongly resembles Hostage with Bruce Willis, except it is not nearly as dark and Ford is not nearly as badass as Bruce. His clean-cut dad didn't convince me too much, but the second half is much better, that's good-old Ford as we know him from Air Force One and the Ryan films, and nothing suits him more than a bloody face and trembling body. The conclusion is truly the only gripping moment of the film, and the final fight scene is impressive. Unfortunately, there isn't much more, Paul Bettany is bland and the banking machinations themselves are hardly understandable for an average viewer, without a single hint of explanation, a helping hand, not even a tap – and I strongly doubt it works like this in reality. A confusing and overall below-average thing. (06/03/2007)