Fun action scenes and... well nothing else!

Rating: 5/10 (26 September 2007)

It s been a while I have not seen a great action movie with a lot of explosions, gunshots, fights, and cars chases. And honestly even though the scenes are pretty unrealistic Die Hard 4 delivers quite amazing moments. Of course Mclaine is more a superhero than a real human and therefore can survive pretty much anything, but after all everything about Bruce Willis special abilities was explained in "Unbreakable" and the main purpose of an action movie is to show off and not to stick closely to reality... Therefore the main problem with this movie is somewhere else! The scenario! *****May contain Spoilers********* I mean even though it is quite unrealistic it starts pretty well with an organization because a very long and well planned plan has taken control the US computers network... And not just superficially, the whole TV network, financial network, traffic network, but not somehow the power network, they have to do it manually (after all why not?). But then after a nearly "End of the World" start, you discover that their only reason for that is to get a ransom for some data! The bad guys offer to clear all the debt of Bruce Willis and set his children well off for their life, control the whole financial system, but do all this for money!!!! After this stupid explanation, it goes on an on without any logic from places to places, you discover that they where able to cut the power of by destroying the station but instead they lost their time in the beginning by do it manually. That the main bad guy can hack the best security system with a laptop but are not able to unlock a computer code manually... That the computer geek that they tried to kill so desperately at the beginning is useless (apart from the fact that he somehow knows the code of a very restricted area (I still can not believe this one...) And it goes on and on and on... In summary: the movie is enjoyable but you must switch your brain off otherwise it will badly affect the fun!