"Die Hard" Lives Again

Rating: 9/10 (3 July 2007)

SYNOPSIS: John McClane (Bruce Willis) is back as he teams up with a clean-cut computer expert (Justin Long) to take down a hacker (Timothy Olyphant) bent on causing havoc in Washington D. C. on Independence Day. ----PROS: Of all the sequels, prequels, and remakes Hollywood has dumped into cinemas this summer, this one is definitely the most fun. Willis and Long develop an amusing relationship full of sly, snappy dialogue. And of course, this wouldn't be a DH movie without the action. The fight sequences surpass anything in the first three films (or almost any action movie, for that matter). The convincing blend of stunts and CG gives the explosive action a burst of adrenaline missing from, say, Spidey 3.---- CONS: The plot, of course, is absurd. That's to be expected with Die Hard movies, but even for a guy's flick, the story is ridiculous. But once the bang-bang and boom-boom begin, the movie (luckily) loses sigh of the story. Also, Timothy Olyphant was not much of a bad guy. He wasn't in any way menacing or evil.
But overall, if you just dial your brain down to the lowest level, and sit back with a big bag of popcorn, you can't help but have a helluva time at this flick.