Next came that Harrison Ford thriller FIREWALL. I guess tired is the best word I could use to describe it. Once again, I thought the set-up was pretty well planned, but these films often seem to have great ideas without an adequate resolution. Ford walks through a lot of the film almost like he's in a daze, and when things get intense later in the film, I thought he might have a heart attack from the exertion since he'd been so lethargic through the earlier parts of the picture.
But the film had a great cast, many of them like Alan Arkin and Robert Patrick utterly wasted. Robert Forster has a couple of scenes, but he, too, has little to do. Paul Bettany is the principal bad guy, and Virginia Masden tries to make something out of her role as Ford's wife, but it's very poorly written. Mary Lynn Rajskub from '24' actually ends up having an important part in the film and was my favorite character.
With a different male star and a good rewrite to make the ending more interesting, this could have been an intelligent thriller.
