Watchable, with action, but...

Rating: Null/10 (11 July 2011)

There's nothing that wrong with Die Hard 4.0, as an action film. It got a lot of the Die Hard saga action moments. And, well, that's what Die Hard is all about. However, there's something here which isn't quite right for me. I don't get why the bad guy is... the bad guy. He's basically freeing the people from a corrupted system. OK, he's getting paid for it (choosing himself how much he wants for the service), but so does the government (the REAL one) day by day. The exact same thing the "bad" guy does, it's done in a daily basis by the US government. The only difference is that the government is brainwashing the population instead of actually making it free, like this super evil character does. So, my dilemma is, why is Willis after the good guy? Selfishness, basically, once his daughter gets kidnapped. But before, for some weird and distorted sense of morality. And yes, the government (again, the real one) also kills people in a daily basis to keep things running smoothly, for "the greater good". I can't like this film simply because it's all wrong. If the director wanted people to think about deeper things, it wasn't necessary to cover it up with a huge pile of moral BS. Alright, perhaps if he wouldn't, the film would have been censored or whatever. But, hey, I won't sell myself, thank you.