jacquelinesherlock
Fab first half and then all of sudden there's a Truck vs Fighter Jet scene that is so beyond ridiculous that I wanted to put my fist through the TV screen! How Bruce Willis miraculously survives that is anybody's guess. Only thing that let an otherwise very cool movie down!
cinemajesty
Movie Review: "Live Free or Die Hard" (2007)This highly-anticipated fourth installment of the "Die Hard" movie series in good hands with "Underworld" director Len Wiseman and a contemporary Cyper-Thriller script by Mark Bomback, bringing legendary movie character of New York Police Detective John McClane again into the wrong place at the wrong time with Bruce Willis reprising at stellar still-in-action-age of 51 to deliver a racing action-movie hunting intitial Joel Silver/Lawrence Gordon produced "Die Hard" of summer 1988, when Hollywood major 20th Century Fox backs down to a flawsome PG-13 rating and miscast boy-like supporting cast, given face by Justin Long, when Maggie Grace as McClane's daughter and nemesis computer hacker entrepreneur Thomas Gabriel, in a justified major Hollywood production-entrée after ruling exceptional HBO series "Deadwood" alongside Ian McShane, actor Timothy Olyphant fighting to the death with Bruce Willis in interchanging sequences of high-end computer-generated action with F35 combat jet confronting a fully-mounted truck tractor to chamber gun threatening stand-offs with everything what John McClane has to give at high stakes to fairly supenseful thrills with unnecessary slapping humor in computer nerd basements in a 120-Minute-Cut and Maggie Q, reprising splendid looks after joining Tom Cruise at J.J. Abrams "Mission: Impossbile III" equivalent. Nevertheless "Live Free and Die Hard" stays a decent 100 Million-Dollar plus Hollywood production, which holds up after nearly 12 years on the market open for a revisit.© 2018 Cinemajesty Entertainments
Artur Machado
The fourth film of this saga is full of action from beginning to end without stopping, with very fast editing and transitions (which has already become the norm in action films) and shaky camera instead of smother shots (a tendency that already begins to irritate), the performances are nothing special and the villain does not convey the threat of the predecessors, while the argument is totally unrealistic (I write this in 2017 - 10 years after the movie - and there is yet to happen a cyber terrorist attack on such a scale) and John McClane (Bruce Willis) looks more like an indestructible superhero with superpowers because he survives situations even more impossible to survive than in the previous films. As if all the action was not too stupid and unrealistic enough already, the way he kills the villain beats all the records of stupidity that has anytime been seen in film or reality. Good action movie to entertain, but easily forgettable compared to the decent predecessors. And I give 3/10 and not less just in recognition of the enormous work that must have cost to make this movie.
grazer
It's great if you can completely suspend reality and believe the utter unbelievable BS of a woman kicking John McLains butt. John beat the little woman repeatedly. Hit her full force like he would hit a man. Threw her into a shelving unit. Hit her with a moving car. And she kept going. If this were Terminator I wouldn't even blink at it.
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