Die-cast

Rating: 7/10 (21 July 2007)

What can I tell you? Saturday afternoon and I set out for a couple of hours at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park but halfway there the weather changes and it starts to rain. So, what's playing at the Multiplex today; Die Hard 4.0 whatever that means. How bad can it be and it IS raining. Actually it could have been worse, much worse in fact. It's all about suspending your disbelief and watching the good guy kick the bad guy's ass, just like Roy Rogers, Gene Autry et al used to do way back when except this is the computer age and instead of the cattle baron who wanted to build an empire enclosed by barbed wire or the crooked banker/mayor we now have certified ding dongs who want nothing less than to control the world. Honcho Bruce Willis has a nice line in dry humor and manages to kill about fifty times his bodyweight without getting a hair out of place which is easy for him given that he's bald. For a rainy Saturday afternoon it's just the ticket.