Jack Stanfield knows a hacker when he sees one. As a veteran security specialist working for a major Seattle bank, he’s accustomed to designing computer software to foil the most sophisticated of would-be online thieves. Unfortunately for him, he’s never laid eyes on Bill Cox, who’s been watching and studying Jack and his family for months.

After posing as a potential client, Cox pulls a gun on Jack, then “accompanies” him home where a group of Cox’s accomplices have already bound and gagged Jack’s wife, Beth, and their two kids. Turns out, they know everything about the family, from bank account numbers to birthdays to medical histories. But these high-tech criminals aren’t after the Stanfield clan; their heist is of the virtual sort—moving a total of $100 million from thousands of bank customers’ accounts into one of their own.

Jack is their go-between. His family is merely leverage.

Not only is Jack the bank’s head of security, he’s also the creator of a new program that makes its network completely untouchable for outside users—which means he’s the one who will have to rob his own bank.  

“For all the blarney about hacking and up-to-the-minute tech geekery, it’s really just the same old story about protecting the homestead from rustlers in black hats.”
– Andrew Wright, THE STRANGER (SEATTLE, WA)

“Bettany is a perfect 21st Century bad guy as he mixes nastiness with a detached coolness that makes you shudder at its cruelty.”
– Willie Waffle, WAFFLEMOVIES.COM

  “Harrison Ford is now 63, but he’s every bit as spry as a 62-year-old.”
– Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR

“Those who don’t spend enough time watching computer screens at work, however, can see more of them in Firewall, starring grumpy Harrison Ford as the head of digital security for a mid-sized Seattle bank.”
– Stephen Whitty, NEWARK STAR-LEDGER

“Firewall is barely worth seeing, despite its above-average cast.”
– Andrew Sarris, NEW YORK OBSERVER

  “It kept me alert, terrified and royally entertained.”
– Rex Reed, NEW YORK OBSERVER

Read the review here.

RATED PG-13
DISTRIBUTED BY
Warner Bros.
DIRECTED BY
Richard Loncraine (Wimbledon)
STARRING
Harrison Ford as Jack Stanfield; Paul Bettany as Bill Cox; Virginia Madsen as Beth Stanfield; Mary Lynn Rajskub as Janet Stone; Robert Patrick as Gary Mitchell; Robert Forster as Harry Romano

[tags]Firewall, movie, review, Harrison Ford[/tags]

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