Magnitude on the Ritcher scale is wrong!

Rating: 9/10 (27 June 2007)

The second movie title to continue as a sequel does not really fit the true magnitude of the movie. "FOUR POINT O?" on the Richter scale, I believe not, this is way more than that! A compliment at that.... as well as the way to prove this time around a possibility in the suspense level of yet another sequel. Am I right, despite the official statement that it was a French translation. For a natural disasters movie addict like me, I hope this is one of the possibility that was how the second movie title was also chosen not to be in roman numerals.
Anyways! Everyone hang onto your seats and take cover!!! New Independence Day quote coming from LF/DH... "Like father, like daughter." Father John McClane (Bruce Willis) shoots the foot with a gun, so does his daughter, Lucy McClane (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). That was just too good to be true because she hates her Dad so much because he always follow wherever she goes and spy on whatever she does. But that same gunshot style definitely flipped the adage. Mary Elizabeth Winstead was the most amazing choice because her voice has a serious tone of both fear and arrogance, and the strangest of all, it brought about no questions in regards to blood ties with her Dad in the movie. I doubt that there are many who can convince the audience, so much as to how they are not related at all in character.
Also, right before that scene, when she was forced to talk down his father on the walkie-talkie, she mentioned that there were 5 men to go. Man, that was just fantastic! She definitely inherited all the possible genes from her Dad. Back to her Dad, John, the scene where he sneakily use a fire hydrant's broken-fury and another scene where he used a police car to crash into a helicopter in mid-air... although we all knew that this is all for show, but you can imagine the intelligence of John McClane. He is not just a senior detective, he is one freaky physics scientist without the white coat, walking down the street. In this movie, Bruce Willis put up some great comedic lines to calm the audience from the explosions and brutality brought upon him.. it is telling you that "I am still alive to kick some ___ !"
His scene in that huge rig truck definitely proves my point, he is a walking demon of the NYPD force, a zombie detective who has been awaken to sniff out and finish the computer Satan --- trademarked line by commentator.
Mai Lihn (Maggie Q) was super bad! Not sure of the exact quote, but here goes -- McClane: ".. Kung Fu ... " stuff, he beats her down with homeboy style throws, like brother-to-brother friendly fight. It is definitely nice to bring in part of the Chinese culture in this Independence Day feature.
This movie has definitely turned out very fatherly and the jokes were all well-placed. The last scene with Lucy in one ambulance and Matt Farrell (Justin Long) was just-so-not-this-movie but inspires how people do attract "the electric current through the eyes" as the Chinese saying. In fact, I enjoyed all the humor because Justin Long has been in most of the love comedies. Another piece of comedy that I like was when they entered the Warlock (Kevin Smith)'s dungeon. His "Command Center" LOL!!! It really reminds me of playing Command & Conquer games and all its series. And even so, the name 'Warlock' is hilarious enough... no need to ask where or what games I played to know that... I probably cannot name the origin of that name anyways.
Thomas Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant) played the mastermind role. The intensity was breathtaking like Face Off (1997), and his men were sensational, such as the one who was like "Spiderman" -i just couldn't catch his name, all the suspense and excitement!- , whom McClane called 'hamster'. That was extremely funny!
In all, everyone was superb! I recommend this movie without doubt!
I think that this movie is great without the profanity within the character of John McClane, he does not need that to prove to others that he can sweep his enemies by rolling a dirty roll of toilet paper, he can do it with rolls and rolls of clean ones anyways. --- trademarked line by commentator.