I saw Firewall tonight. I’ve heard so many people say bad things about it that I was pleasantly surprised. It is, in the end, an old-fashioned action movie, but it seems well thought out. I’m usually pretty good at finding plot holes, and there are a few, but they don’t seem egregious. Maybe this is that effect where lower expectations lead to improved satisfaction. Even the age thing (Harrison Ford was 62 during filming, with an eight-year-old son and a young-looking wife) didn’t seem like a problem. It wouldn’t be the first time a rich man married a younger woman. His action-heroing seemed pretty much consistent with his age; he’s stiff, and a little slow, and mostly just gets very lucky.
It was fun.