Firewall Flop

Two movies in two weeks!! Holy cimematic freakout Robin. After the Brokeback experience my longing for widescreen entertainment drew me and my date to a more traditional movie storyline. What a disappointment.

I wasn't into this flop 10 minutes and I was starting the let's blow this joint countdown. This was soooooooooooo boooooooooooring and so like 100's of other hero action storylines. Let's recap. Hero action dude and family get's put into situation where action dude must save himself, his family and the world(in this case some money)from master villain and villain helper dudes. Hero dude tries various attempts of twarting the bad act and ends up getting son nearly dead and a villain helper shot by master villain. Of course, in today's digital world there's the need for banks of computers, an unimpregnable security system, hence the name firewall, and obviously a way around the umimpregnable. There was absolutely nothing new or stimualting in this flick. Let's see we had the usual near escape by the family and the recapture just as they we starting the car. Wow, so original. Then we have the action hero stumbling across all the right clues and a helper to put the villian on the defense. Then we had the family pooch wearing a GPS collar so action hero can find villains and family. And to top it off and played out so many times the action hero goes fist to fist with master villian. After a few broken windows, tables and walls action hero happens upon a pick and ends the villian dude. The only cliche not played was the final resurrection of the villain with the pick in his back to taunt the hero or family member one last time before we're all put out of our misery.

Man, this thing was bad. In the wise words of my oldest daughter that's two hours of my life that I'll never get back.