I used to keep seeing this on HBO, and back then I really wasn't very interested. All I knew was that it involved a bank, cars, chases, a lot of shouting, hostages, some techy terms I couldn't even comprehend anyway and the usual bad-guy-kidnaps-family-goody-guy-outsmarts-bad-guy-police-comes-at-the-END-of-story gig. Even the fact that Harrison Ford played the lead role (the only reason why I'm interested in said actor was because he played Han Solo in Star Wars) wasn't enough for me to stay put and watch it. I knew it was something that my dad would like; my preference would've been adventure, fantasy, maybe a little horror and your occasional talking animal, and there was clearly none of these in the movie. So when Ms. Kath told us we were going to watch it, I prepared my face for the ever-anticipated "duhhhhh" expression.
But the movie was actually really cool. And even though it didn't have its fair share of talking animals, at least it had a dog in it. It also had any number of techy stuff in it, like all the hacking and the codes in the bank, and all the cool just-press-your-thumb-against-the-sensor-and-hey-presto!-the-doors-open things, from the pen-in-the-camera to the Pet Nav (XD but it actually doesn't exist, there's nothing on Google). Hey, can those work on chickens?
Soon after, I searched for their goofs on IMDb, which is something I usually find myself doing when there's nothing else to do. Cool, they used six water trucks for the rain effects, and I soon found out the glitches in the movie: that the daughter dialed a possible 299, 599, or 899 instead of 911 because the tones were wrong, and that an iPod mini cannot store 10,000 songs.
Although, my happy "duhhh" face wasn't wasted for nothing... there were times I just found myself staring at the screen, just nodding my head because I understood nothing of what they were doing, especially when they were typing all those matrix looking thingies into the computer. At one point in the movie the whole scene sprouted techy terms with a vengeance. It was that time when the main character finally found a way to hack into the system, talking from bad-guy to bad-guy-sidekick after he ripped off a piece of a fax machine and borrowed his daughter's iPod. They gabbled in words I couldn't understand and I looked from face to face like a paranoid chicken. I wish I could've found the exact lines. But then I'd be nosebleeding again all over the place.
If words were gold, I'd treat Hongkong Disneyland as my personal backyard and then some.
