Live Free or Die Hard

June 29, 2007

Rated: PG-13 Runtime: 130 min Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

John McLane (Willis) is up to his neck in terrorists all over again and the only difference is this time some of them are French??? French terrorists are a hard thing to believe because as sneaky as terrorists are, they are bold and we know that really isn’t a French trait so on that note I’ll move along.

Live Free or Die HardIn the previous 3 Die Hard movies all of them had the same basic plotline; Foreign invaders wreak havoc in the name of what is believed to be politics but ultimately it winds up being about money… Episode 4 is no different.

This time the main baddie is Thomas Gabriel (Olyphant), a former tech head that tried to save America by showing the joint chiefs we were vulnerable to a major techno attack that could bring the country to it’s knees, but of course we don’t listen and he finds another way to prove he was right… Run the exact scenario he told the government the terrorists would use and send us back to the stone-age. But wait before he can do this he has to hire a whole peck of geeks to design little pieces of code that he can use in different phases to make his prophecy a reality, and just like the main rule of assassination (eliminate the assassin when the job is done), Gabriel puts out contracts on his geek squad when they finish so they can’t un-do his master plan, if they decide to go to the cops. All in all a good plan, too bad John McLane never lets the bad guys have their cake and eat it too.

One particular target of Gabe’s is Matt Farrell (Long), a New Jersey based hacker that designs decryption algorithms and collects action figures. After a few high profile hackers start getting bumped off around the country the FBI sends out a request to bring Farrell in and have him tell them what’s going on. Enter John McLane the man who always gets the lucky task of saving the day… Again… and John always gets the job done.

Bruce Willis is still cooler than the other side of the pillow as Sr. Detective John McLane so there was no way this movie could suck, and gratefully it didn’t. Supporting players, Olyphant and Long are quite good and so is the smoking hot Ninja babe Maggie Q. Kevin Smith shows up in a pretty funny role as Hacker Elite-Master Warlock… AKA Freddy. Throw in Winstead as the saucy daughter along with a half squirrell psycho for John to fight and you have a very cool action movie. Oh, I forgot the fact a jet chases him so toss that in too.

Yippy Ki Yay Mother F’ers John McLane is back and you should go check him out! Don’t go in expecting realism, go in expecting to be entertained - You’ll get your wish.

Posted by J.C. Edwards | Filed Under 4 Stars, Action, Bruce Willis, DVD, Justin Long, Maggie Q, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, PG-13, Timothy Olyphant 

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One Response to “Live Free or Die Hard”

  1. John on November 24th, 2007 10:51 am

    Just watched the Unrated DVD version of the movie, and it remains a 4 star movie IMO.

    No differences in skin, but there is liberal use of the “F” word this time around. The violence was amped up just a bit as well.

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