Die Hard ended with the trilogy.

Rating: 6/10 (11 August 2007)

Live Free or Die Hard could possibly be shortened to "Live Free". The similarities between this film and the previous Die Hard titles ends with the names of the characters. Don't get me wrong, as an action film, Live Free or Die Hard is a passable effort. But as a Die Hard film, it's nothing short of a total failure.
Whatever insanity crossed through the producers minds when deciding to edit this film down to a pg-13 is truly beyond comprehension. It would have been bad enough to film the movie as a pg-13, but to edit out nearly all of the profanities in the film is a total travesty. Not only is it un-Die Hard, it was painfully obvious. John McClane would have a small monologue, and the camera would dart around the room in a desperate effort to hide the fact that the word f___ was probably coming out of his mouth every 3 seconds.
Timothy Olyphant may be a promising young actor, but whether it was the direction, or Olyphant himself, he does not work as a Die Hard villain. His bulging eyes and semi-threatening dialogue wasn't enough to cover his overall, rather bland performance.
We yet again see the somewhat-new-but-already-tired female kung-fu bad-guy gimmick, and despite the fact that she gets her ass kicked, it's still extremely contrived.
Nothing felt right in this film. Even Bruce Willis' performance was not even remotely similar to the John McClane we all know and love. Willis could have been playing any other action hero. There was none of the jovial bravado that defined his character in the previous films, it was instead replaced with crappy, pg-13ed dialogue and poor comic relief from Justin Long(who could well be a fine young actor, but just got annoying in this movie). Even the violence, while frequent, was shrouded by constant camera cuts and elaborate stunts.
The first Die Hard film was, in my opinion, one of the finest action films ever made. And while swearing and violence aren't always necessary in a film, they simply ARE in a Die Hard movie.
Worth watching to build your own opinion, but personally, i consider the Die Hard series as ended after 'Die Hard With a Vengeance'.