Yu-Pi-Ki-Yey

Rating: 6/10 (31 August 2005)

After the wonderful first Die Hard, and a little silly but still decently made second one, comes the worst in the series (at least until now). It's not all bad. Definitely it has good moments: The main idea of this film when the bad guy tells good guy what to do, or else he blows something. The missions are truly funny (in a good way). The action is OK. Samuel Jackson plays his part well, and definitely contributes to this sequel. The opening scene is wonderful when Joe Cocker's version of Hot Town plays in the background and ... Explosion... we are officially entered to the plot of the movie, can take our seats and enjoy. OK, I did enjoy the movie's first hour and a half. And then it's like the director ran out of script and began to improvise. An online plot. And i'm not trying to find holes in the script, i'm trying to find the script in those holes.
Common, John McClane, the guy who fights till his last breath ( though doing it in his take-it-easy Willis way ) is get caught here? And what, the bad guys spare him? I mean Simon Gruber spares him after everything McClane did for his brother, I'm sure he would like to see him dead. I'm repeating, SEE him dead.I Suppose Simon didn't like his brother ( actually he and McClane agreed on that) and decided to half-spare him. But of course McClane dies hard and ... well .. actually he didn't die ( he was needed for the good ending and apparently for the Die Hard 4. Although he could die, but then they would make Die Hard Zero, or Die Hard The Beginning. This would tell us about early Johnny McClane). Zeus Carver also dies hard, that means he also didn't die in the movie, although he should die on the boat explosion cause his last scene was totally unnecessary.After The police finds out the "bad guys'" location they go to get them, and what do you think of Zeus Carver ( Samuel Jackson). He also goes with them, he flies with McClane on same chopper to get the "bad guys". He must have been registered to the police force during the flight though the director didn't show us the flight itself. I still don't get what Zeus did on that chopper.He intended to shout at the villains? It must have been so. Maybe he has an ultrasonic voice that can damage the surroundings? Anyway the director was late about this, cause McClane already killed the "bad guys". He hit the electricity cable with his revolver from something like 90 feet and the cable hit the chopper where Simon was.End of story.
Wait a minute. Did I tell you how the police finds the "bad guys"? No first, how did they loose them. 17 Trucks full of gold, one after the other in a row, driving silently, unnoticed, in the streets of New York. Yeh, sure they are. Who can possibly think someone would notice them? The only logical explanation i find is that each of the trucks was in a garage where they made a new color and fixed the engine (GTA). OK so the dumb police looses the trucks and smart McClane, after 2 hours of sweat chaises and fights where he was almost killed in an explosion and solved a logic riddle while saving many innocent citizens' lives, he finally finds "the bad guys". McClain looks at an aspirin bottle that Gruber gave him before, sees where it was manufactured, and realizes that there must be the "bad guys" where. Can you believe it? You can? Oh no, most of romantic stories don't go that far. Consider Serendipity: girl writes on a book, throws it and if this book somehow finds the man she loves then they must be meant for each other. Now Die Hard : With Vengeance : Simon Gruber gives John McClane a bottle of aspirin that finally causes McClane to find him because in all the places Simon could hide, he chose the address on that bottle.
See it as a sequel to the first two ( if you saw them).