All the usual ingredients, but well put together

Rating: Null/10 (2 July 2007)

Here we have all the usual ingredients of a police thriller.
Item: Standard odd couple of hard-as-nail old cop and another. After a rapid-fire rapper in "Block 16", Bruce Willis has this time a computer wiz kid.
Item: Cute daughter a generation gap away.
Item: Jet plane coming UNDER a freeway fly-over at attack a ground vehicle.
Item: Mind boggling IT warfare.
Item: All kinds of spectacular action expected of this genre.
Item: Smart-Alex one liners.
I can go on, but that is the general state of things. Ever since day one, topping the gun-taped-to-naked-back sequence has been a mission impossible. And yet, "Underworld" director Len Wisemen has managed to put together a vastly entertaining 4th installment of Die Hard.
The funniest moment is when Willis blocks the surveillance cameras of the bad guys and asks in a whisper his IT pal to check the source. "You block the camera with your hand but the microphone is still on", comes the voice of the bad guy. The best eye candy is Maggie Q walking around looking so beautiful and cool, both. One reference that some may miss is John McClane's reply to his daughter about his crazy coup of shooting through his own shoulder to get the bad guy that grabbed him from behind, "It seems a good idea at the time". That is of course Steve McQueen's famous line from "The magnificent seven".