Well, this was somewhat of a ridiculous movie, but it was everything you’d expect from a Die-Hard movie.
Basically a group of cyber-terrorists led by Thomas Gabriel (Timothy Oliphant) shut down the systems of the U.S. Government to cause nationwide panic in order to secretly steal all the nations financial information. Unfortunately, they get the information from a group of hackers who are all eliminated once their task is done except for one Matthew Farrell (Justin Long) who survives because he is visited by NYPD officer John McClane (Bruce Willis), who stops him from shutting down his computer, which would have blown up his apartment, and saves him from a group of assassins who would have taken him out. McClane and Farrell both make it to D.C. when the attacks first begin, and slowly piece together what is happening due to Farrell’s involvement in the hacking. McClane and Farrell both slowly begin to trust each other, and use Farrell’s computer skills combined with McClane’s fighting skills to slowly find who is doing this, and bring them down.
Ok, so while not a amazing movie, this is definetly the movie this summer that blows the most stuff up and is entertaining even if it’s not brilliant. Bruce Willis still has it with his McClane character, and he is the most entertaining person in the movie. The body count is high in this movie, as with any Die-Hard, and besides less blood and the obvious loss of the harsh language, you won’t really notice the difference between the PG-13 Die-Hard, and R ones. The villain is not anywhere near memorable as any of the other villians, and Justin Long’s character won’t be remembered that much with much better buddy characters in the first 3 like Samuel L. Jackson in Vengeance. The plot goes by the standard action movie template, so there isn’t anything that is going to surprise anyone for the most part. But it’s a good movie, and there is something about the movie that makes you satisfied after you see it. 3 1/2 out of 5 stars I’d say.
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