Straight Edge Life

Weak. Sadly weak. Harrison Ford is one of my favorites. No boy growing up in the Indiana Jones franchise can really say otherwise in all honesty. And I certainly don’t fault the weakness of Firewall on Harrison. It was just a limp and formulaic plot. I give it props for not trying to be more than it was. I also enjoyed that Chloe (Mary Lynn Rajsku) from 24 was in Firewall. She’s always fun. Don’t go into this movie expecting a lot. Certainly don’t go into it expecting that it will have anything to do with networking or any other aspect of geekdom. The server rooms are silent (viciously untrue of real server rooms) and the presentation of technology is very non-specific. It’s just not very compelling and fails to bring your concern for his kidnapped family to a level high enough to make anything that happens very interesting or important. It’s pretty obvious that someone in hollywood pulled the formula out and popped in the appropriate and inoffensive topic (networking), found some good actors and a crew. Harrison Ford does an excellent job of getting the crap kicked out of him and still winning the fight. How does he do that? Anyway… not much else to say. 4 out of 10.