Live Free or Die Hard: A Quick Review

Arguably the most ridiculous entry into the series. And by ridiculous, I mean ridiculously awesome. First of all, I thought this movie was going to be so stupid I might actually have a brain anuerism. And even sadder, it was the very first entry into the Die Hard series that I had the privilege of viewing. Fortunately I waited until the unrated version came out on DVD (Note to Hollywood, don't tone down Die Hard with a pg-13 rating. That is just stupid). What Live Free loses in plot and character it makes up for in the craziest action possible.

For the fourth entry, McClane is back in D.C. trying to keep a whiny Justin Long from getting killed by hackers who have figured out how to systematically shutdown the entire infrastructure of the United States. They're only mistake? You can't shut down John McClane with a computer. So they try to do it with his daughter, but that just made him angrier.

Live Free or Die Hard is probably the weakest in the series. Developers seemed to understand this so they made up for it by upping the action to 11. Not only does John McClane kill a helicopter with a car, he also explodes a fighter jet. And since this is the 2000's he also dispatches several parkour-ninja masters with good old fashioned American scrap fighting. Turn off your brain and enjoy the getting old jokes because I heard they're going to be making number 5 pretty soon. And if it is as good as all the others I won't care how ridiculously old Bruce Willis is at this point. Just give him a gun and an ideology to protect and I will be happy.

P.S. love the New Hampshire reference. What a ridiculous state motto. REPRESENT.

3 out of 4 stars

-Christopher O'Connell