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Feb 9, 2006 · Ford stars as Jack Stanfield, online security chief for a mid-sized banking chain. He is introduced to a possible client named Bill Cox ( Paul Bettany ), in what turns out to be a setup: Cox and his men are holding Ford's wife ( Virginia Madsen) and their two children, aged about 9 and 15, hostage.
Bank security expert Jack Stanfield (Harrison Ford) builds a career on his expertise in designing theft-proof computer systems for financial institutions.
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Feb 10, 2006 · Firewall: Directed by Richard Loncraine. With Harrison Ford, Virginia Madsen, Carly Schroeder, Jimmy Bennett. A security specialist is forced into robbing the bank that he's protecting, as a bid to pay off his family's ransom.
Firewall is a 2006 American action thriller film [4] directed by Richard Loncraine and written by Joe Forte. [5] The film stars Harrison Ford as a banker who is forced by criminals, led by Paul Bettany, to help them steal $100 million, with Virginia Madsen, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Robert Patrick, Robert Forster, and Alan Arkin.
Movie Review. 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.
Though Firewall takes up the topical focus of fears of surveillance, it offers precious few new ideas. Once again, Harrison Ford must save his family from violent outlaws, grimacing and flailing as he discovers that "going along" only inspires the bad guys to do more damage.
Mar 17, 2006 · In Firewall, a workmanlike thriller with spurious cyber-trappings, the price of living under his roof is being held hostage by a ruthless thief (Paul...
Feb 10, 2006 · 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.
Directed by Richard Loncraine, who put us to sleep most recently with Wimbledon, Firewall is a formulaic retro-thriller, with no idea how to achieve the techie tension of TV shows like Alias and 24. When Jack finally does get up on his hind legs and fight back, the movie resolves with such silliness the arrival of Superman would not have been a ...
Feb 4, 2006 · The group’s leader, Bill Cox (Bettany), has been tracking Stanfield’s movements as head of network security for a Seattle bank. Cox plans to take Stanfield’s family hostage and compel the ...