4 is not a magic number

Rating: 5/10 (30 October 2007)

Die Hard 4 has its moments. Many actually if you like and consider that an action movie should be full of action scenes. Regarding this matter, no doubt DH4 is full of action scenes. But..... Yes, unfortunately, there is or there are many many buts. I try to know what was wrong with this movie and i think it is the young director direction. This quite inexperienced guy (only one movie and its sequels) had certainly tried hard to bring us the joy and entertainment provided by the 3 first DH movies. But he forgot a big big issue there : ACTING. Yes, DH4 is really bad acting and bad casting. While the villain, in the first 3 nearly stole the show, in DH4 he is quite of memorable. And there is not good movie without a good villain. Wiseman failed to succeed to Mc Tiernan and Renny Harlin. While Bruce Willis is still great, it misses far too much "je ne sais quoi" of the first 3 ones, to be remembered as a great DH movie. Yes, we can stay and focus on the Die Hard TRILOGY if you know what i mean.