Movie: Firewall

Harrison Ford in yet another role as big-honcho-in-big-trouble-with-family-in-peril, played yet again as a slow-stoked fire that turns into a conflagration of payback before it's done. His physical acumen in this is not very believable (he's a computer security guy at a bank, for chrissake - the smackdown at the end is satisfying and yet one thinks he can't be this up on his fighting moves on a daily basis). But of course for me, the best part of this movie is that he tracks his family via the Global Pet Finder collar on his little dog. Which works in the movie exactly the way it's advertised to work in real life. Again, there's a suspension of disbelief required (who takes the dog along on a hostage relocation?) but it yields one of the better lines in the movie when an annoyingly barky Rusty finally gets himself booted out of the criminals' van to the screams of the wife and kids - comic relief miles behind them, the young secretary who is helping Harrison by following the dog on the tracking web says "Hey, they're slowing down...." as the little dog stands abandoned in the road. As per formula, one of the good guys gets wasted early on, but everyone else is happy and hugging at the end. Woof.