Move on, Mr. Ford

I watched Firewall over the weekend, starring the 64 year-old Harrison Ford.

Ford plays a bank's IT security guy whose family is taken hostage in an effort to force Ford to assist the bad guys in stealing millions of dollars from his bank.

This movie is average at best. It was somewhat ludicrous to watch Ford as a character who had to be at least 20 years younger than he really is (born 13 July 1942). No 64 year-old bank employee could take the physical pounding that Ford more or less shrugs off. At times, his age showed glaringly as he moved like a senior citizen.

Then there was his family, a mid-thirties wife, a teenage daughter, and a pre-teen son. Yeah, right.

Harrison Ford is just too old to be taken seriously in this kind of role. It's time to "grow up" as a character and take more appropriate rolls.

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