Firewall

Harrison Ford est un père exemplaire et riche d'une "famille parfaite" et doit maintenant se battre pour elle... Un thriller américain qui emprunte plus qu'il ne donne. La première moitié est fortement routinière, ennuyeuse et étirée. La deuxième moitié dynamise avec le retournement de situation, volé d'un thriller non identifié avec Mel Gibson, et alterne entre de bonnes scènes et des clichés "routiniers". Harrison joue Harrison, l'antagoniste Paul Bettany est étonnamment unidimensionnel. Les autres ne sont là que pour faire nombre. Dans l'ensemble, c'est relativement divertissant, parfois captivant et parfois involontairement drôle du genre. Personnellement, j'ai été réjoui par la séquence finale avec la vieille voiture et les lieux ruraux ensoleillés - à la fois un doux souvenir nostalgique des aventures de Hitchcock et un contraste agréable avec le visuel high-tech précédent (filtres bleus). Vous ne pouvez tout simplement pas condamner cette dernière scène :-) (22/02/2006)

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)

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)

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)