14 DAY TRIAL // The iPod is without a doubt the best loved portable music player, but it seems to have become so widespread in the consumer culture that it is now the central indirect player in Hollywood action movies.
We've seen this movie before many times, with different actors, and different technologies. In the beginning it was the floppy disk that was used to steal large amounts of money, then it was the CD-ROM disk, and now it has become the iPod. Yes, in his most recent 'Firewall' movie, Harrison Ford uses his daughter's iPod to steal fabulous amounts of money because his family is being held hostage by a psychotic thief.
While it may be a pretty good source of publicity for Apple, one shudders at the thought of the potential class lawsuits that may follow as people rush to buy iPods and are disappointed that the device refuses to do any stealing, instead stubbornly playing music. Wouldn't be surprising, as Ford himself has a 'low comfort level' with technology, he confessed to The Providence Journal: "I did a lot of research, though, in anticipation of doing the film, that I needed to bring me up to speed. But I haven't figured out an iPod yet."
Of the movie itself, Rick Warner writes for Bloomberg News : "See Harrison grimace. See Harrison clench his teeth. See Harrison seethe with righteous anger. See all of the above in other, better Ford vehicles such as 'Witness' and 'The Fugitive.'"