Perhaps the best thing about Bruce Willis' latest outing as John McClane is the title. "Live Free Or Die Hard" (2007) sounds less cheesy than its predecessors, Die Hard With a Vengeance. " And go - as the title - is certainly an improvement on "Die Hard 2: Die Harder."
But as far as content, "Live Free" is by far the worst entry in the series.
The stunts and special effects are entertaining, to be sure. Unfortunately, the story is so ridiculous, it prevents even the slightest suspensionof infidelity, an essential element for the genre. Take, for example, the first scenes of the film. The bad guys are not going to kill computer hacker by uploading a virus on their respective systems.
What kind of virus?
The type of virus that when you delete "hit that" your house exploded in a fireball. As a digital virus results in such a massive ball of fire I'll never know. Maybe we should have to take us to the bad guys have bombs wired in motion, the hacker, but such detailsroutinely in a world where everything is glossed over - and everything I mean is - possible with a keyboard, a high-speed Internet connection.
A typical piece is as follows:
The villain looms on his computer screen, monitoring automotive John McClane drives through Washington, DC (The villain has satellite access.)
McClane drives through an underground tunnel, closed for construction, on the way to headquarters. (Convenient.)
With a few clicks his mouse, theVillain changed the detour signs and diverting traffic. At each end of the tunnel and begin to accelerate each other hapless motorists caught with McClane in the middle. (I guess the bad guy also has remote access to lights and signs. Luckily for him, happy reduced DC drivers the wrong way down a sort of tunnel, because the signals said to them.)
Then the tunnel will turn out the lights. (Which he, remote access to the electrical grid also means!)
Now that's ingenuity. I haveMention of the villain's master plan electronically to all U.S. transportation, government, financial and utility systems to manipulate the same time? He wants to erase the financial records, reset the clock "and" send us back to the Stone Age. " An ambitious plan to put it mildly.
In a film like "The Rock" we sneak such implausibilities, without thinking much, as unlikely as they may be, they are at least possible. In the world of "Live Free Or Die Hard", the villaincould probably use a mobile phone hacking into the nervous system McClane.
The more you think analytically to avoid the more you will enjoy this film. Highlights are now McClane take down helicopter with a car, and Kevin Smith (of "Clerks") as a hacker named Warlock. He lives in the basement of his mother, whom he refers to the "government".
Grade: C --
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