Movie franchises come and go, and some stay around too long. The Godfather saga lasted one picture too many and Jaws was two. When I saw the first trailer for this latest Die Hard entry I was excited and at the same time hoping it would hold up to the previous installments. After all, Bruce is older now and Die Hard 3 was waaaaaaaay back in 1995. Trust me when I tell you, his age mattered not and IT DID hold up to it's predecessors! Just like the Dirty Harry pictures, Eastwood got older, but guess what? So did Harry! In real life a detective would be getting older and slower, BUT, at the same time he would be smarter and wiser and so it is with Bruce Willis as our hero! John McClane is minding his own business (as if THAT ever mattered) when he is asked by the FBI, in the middle of the night, to bring in a known computer hacker. Seven OlympicÏÏ™ class hackers have been murdered in the last 24 hours and the feds know something is up. So, McClane goes to Matt Farrell's (Justin Long) apartment to fetch him and all hell breaks loose. He arrives just as the kid is scheduled to be number eight. The rest of the picture is McClane's tutoring the kid in how to stay alive while battling terrorists who are using computers to shut down the country. The kid couldn't have found a better teacher! This picture took off at the very beginning and never looked back! Wow! It was non-stop action and never lulled. It was all there, the villain(s), the hero, the kid and a bunch of clueless feds who would have let the country come to a complete halt had our guy not been there. Bruce was fabulous. He WAS an older cop who'd seen and done it all and was needed to do it again. He played it perfectly, a little tired and at the same time ready and willing to kick any asses that needed kicking. I also liked Justin Long (the kid). He was clueless and in a fog until McClane convinced him that he would die soon (and hard!) unless he did what he was told. But the biggest star here was the action! I laughed a few times at some of the bad guys who should have died 9 or 10 times before they finally did and how they kept coming back from falls, bullets and crashes, but that is to be expected in any good action picture. I mean, kill them off too quick and there's no picture. That aside, I loved it from start to finish and I'm feeling a little guilty I didn't pay more to see it. "Yippee ki-yay.....Mother ______!!! (Last word muffled by PG-13 rating, not me) RECOMMENDATION: You know what to expect going in and you get it! Action, action and more action! Spend the money and take the family. Rated PG-13 for action picture type violence and to make more money. "R" rated pictures make less and the studios are greedy as hell. TWO ACTION PACKED, COMPUTER HACKED, SEQUELED AND EQUALED THUMBS UP!!! (Lookin' for #5!) Movie Review © 2007 by Terry Anderson |
