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Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: For all its fleeting touches of color, Firewall's main players are stranded in template land. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: [A] tense but too often preposterous thriller. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: An efficient time-passer at least until the plot starts obsessing over the fate of the family dog. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: It kept me alert, terrified and royally entertained. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: This is one of the dopiest plans in the history of evil genius plans. Read more
Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Firewall is one of those mildly entertaining family hostage movies with Harrison Ford as, of course, the good guy. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: As a techno-thriller, Firewall fails to surmount the obstacle that plagues such films: How do you make tapping at a computer interesting? Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: There are other plot holes (four days indoors and the dog doesn't have to go?) but, dispiritingly, Firewall is one of those movies where every detail in the first act is designed to pay off by the third. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: What we essentially have here is an old-fashioned, not always convincing B picture with A-list stars. Read more
Louis B. Parks, Houston Chronicle: If you're in the mood for a thriller, Firewall will suffice -- barely. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Filmmakers who want to make new-style scare-fests should not be thinking old style. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Firewall gives us little reason to bestow deeper meaning on what is essentially a pre-owned Ford vehicle. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: This film is so formulaic, so thoroughly what you'd expect that by the time you're done watching it you feel like you've just seen it for the second time. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: If you feel like you've seen it before, it's because you have -- action heroes beating the crap out of people in the pious name of protecting their loved ones. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: The plot of Firewall is about as complex as a game of Pong. Read more
Stephen Becker, Dallas Morning News: Do Clear and Present Danger or Air Force One ring a bell? If not, get thee to Blockbuster, as those films follow a similar outline to greater effect than does Firewall. Read more
John Patterson, L.A. Weekly: Had Loncraine done a better job of plundering his own oeuvre, Firewall might have acquired the mojo it so sorely lacks. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: Director Richard Loncraine and writer Joe Forte inject fatty layers of false leads, techno-babble and dull-witted tension into what is essentially a generic hostage machine. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: The movie gets a lift from Mary Lynn Rajskub in a glamorized version of her nerd's wet dream Chloe on 24, which is also better this year with the Chloe quotient pumped up. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: 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. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: For every movie based on a clever screenplay that takes years to get made, there are a dozen like the formula hostage thriller Firewall. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: Firewall, a thrill-challenged thriller starring Harrison Ford, manages to entertain mildly only because it gives moviegoers ample opportunity to test their action-movie I.Q. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Firewall is barely worth seeing, despite its above-average cast. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Thrillers aren't just about action and surprises, they're about fear and fury. And for a film with fire in the title, you expect a lot more heat. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Firewall is flawed, but that didn't prevent me from enjoying it for what it is, nor will that prevent me from recommending it to those who enjoy a thriller with enough of the right ingredients to provide a couple hours of escapism. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Firewall is 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. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Harrison Ford is outshone by his costars in this crisp, conventional thriller. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: It's a tricky thing, but an ideal thriller enables an audience to enjoy watching characters suffer. Here, that's difficult. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: Ford is definitely hacking his way through something in Firewall, but it's not a computer. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Director Richard Loncraine and screenwriter Joe Forte run out of ideas. So they turn to the action-movie mainstays -- guns, fisticuffs and explosions -- in an over-the-top showdown that tries to make up in mayhem what it lacks in credibility. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Firewall is the flaming arrow of truth that Harrison Ford is fully in the throes of what worried scientists are calling the De Niro Syndrome. Read more
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: You've seen this movie a dozen times. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Harrison Ford needs a better agent. Or a sharper pair of reading glasses for perusing scripts. He just seems to keep choosing the same tired heroic roles, and ends up coming across as a caricature of his younger self. Read more
Brian Lowry, Variety: Beyond Paul Bettany's suave villain, there's not much to distinguish what amounts to an old-fashioned "B" picture, except perhaps its unusually overwrought score. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: As for Ford, autumn is upon him. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: As we watch Ford reprise his trademark mannerisms, we no longer enjoy the ring of familiarity. We just hear the tolling of a bell -- Ford's. Read more