This film stars Harrison Ford as a bank employee whose family is held hostage by Paul Bettany in order to get him to help steal money from the bank electronically. Without spoiling the ending I can say that anyone who has seen an action film with Mr Ford in can guess how well that turns out. They wire up Harrison ford with surveillance cameras and mics and hack his computer to try and control him. He repeatedly does the opposite of what they want and the bad guys dish out more punishment to get him to cooperate. Most of the characters are generic thug with Paul Bettany as their educated cold blooded leader. Most of the supporting cast of thugs, Coworkers, and to a degree the family are fairly superfluous, though the secretary has more of a part later in the film. The main dynamic of the film is between Ford and Bettany and that bit of the film works fairly well. There is some suspension of disbelief required to believe Harrison Ford is some sort of hacker electronics guru, I mean a programmer that wears a suit to the office it is just unreal ;)

Anyway this is a reasonably good techno bank heist film but personally I think Harrison Ford is beginning to look a bit too old for this sort of rough and tumble beat up the bad guys nonsense and of course he never plays anyone but himself which is both good and bad depending on your whether you like Harrison Ford. Paul Bettany does a good job of proving that English people make the best bad guys, and is good as the ruthless cold blooded criminal leader. Honorable mention goes to Virginia Madsen as ford's wife and Robert Patrick plays one of the bank senior people.

Its not a bad flick it has a degree of action some well thought out plot in there some reasonable performances but it is no where near as slick as inside man the other bank heist film out at the moment.

As Matt mentions, this film does pretty much exactly what it says on the tin. If you see the trailer and have seen a number of Harrison Ford films, you can probably guess the film pretty much.

However, that doesn't mean it is in any way bad. Sometimes you don't want to watch a film consisting of a complex interweave of plots requiring thought, attention and (possibly) sobriety. Sometimes you want to watch a film with some action and some suspense (mainly towards the start).

I think the set up for the film is reasonable. I particularly like the bad guys who turn up with a plan which isn't going to work.

English actors do tend to get cast as villains, likely (as Mr. Izzard would say) because of the revolutionary war. For some reason though they seem to be very good at it... Paul Bettany does a very good job playing a heartless bastard with a thin veneer of reasonability that soon cracks when things don't go to plan.

Now would be a suitably random time to come back to the title of the film. I have no idea why they went with this... I mean, it's a computer security term yes, and it also has implications of action film (i.e. it has the word "fire" in it), but beyond that it seems completely random.

Overall, I'd say that it's a fairly good film, not exactly a must see but worth a look if you stumble across it.

As Mr. Ford says in the trailer, "You'll get your money.... When I get my sandwich". No, wait, I'm probably remembering that wrong...