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Firewall
  • Release Date: Feb 10, 2006
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Metascore
45 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 38 Critics What's this?

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5.4 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 39 Ratings

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  • Starring: Harrison Ford, Virginia Madsen
  • Summary: A bank security expert (Ford) and his family find themselves in jeopardy when a ruthless criminal mastermind (Bettany) attempts to infiltrate the bank’s computer system.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 38
  2. Mixed: 26 out of 38
  3. Negative: 6 out of 38
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    An ingenious attempt to update an old plot with new technology, and it is made with competence, skillful acting, and the ability to make us feel cleverer about digital stuff than we really are.
  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Kirk Honeycutt
    60
    The amount of enjoyment one gets out of the Harrison Ford crime-action thriller Firewall depends on one's tolerance for watching thugs terrify an innocent family for most of the movie.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    38
    The kind of thriller whose ridiculous climax hinges on a hitherto undisclosed GPS tracking device in a dog's collar - an appropriate touch in a movie that's more than a little flea-ridden itself.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 28
  3. Negative: 5 out of 28
  1. MarilynZ.
    10
    It kept me on the edge of my seat. Loved every minute.
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  2. StuartG
    5
    Ford will die in this role but he's what keeps the often hard- to- swallow story plodding forward-- at times it is suspenseful. Technology is the other familiar character (no nomination here however).… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. Ven-Wede
    3
    This movie is so bland and uninteresting that it is more akin to 'Drywall'. Bad puns aside -- Firewall is a film written so badly that when it isn't being ham-fisted, contrived nonsense, it is being unintentionally hilarious. Many scenes (particularly in the first act) exist purely as convenient set-up, forcing the plot into jarring, unnatural places. The movie is also filled with many ludicrous implausibilities and plot holes, resulting in such a broken mess of a screenplay that the only way the writers could see fit to conclude the film was with a deus ex machina. Which, I might add, is so bafflingly stupid that it is almost an insult to the audience. If there's nothing else to do for an hour and a half, Firewall may suffice; just don't expect anything more than standard Hollywood drivel.… Expand
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