Comeback Of The 90's All-About-Explosions Action Movies

Rating: 7/10 (2 July 2007)

As the title says, DH4 was a comeback of the late 90's action movies. You know, the kind where it was all about special effects, explosions, laser-shooting aliens and whatnot? Well scratch the last.
The plot isn't much, it doesn't have you thinking "oh my, what's this really about" in the least. It's bland, boring and predictable all the way to the end. Unlike DH1 and 3, which were all about a form of sustained suspense, DH4 is about attitude and explosions. Pure and simple. In away, it's disappointing of course. But the attitude and explosions part was interesting enough to make up for a lot. Sure it's not realistic, and there are those scenes where even a casual observer with no intimate knowledge of weapons or, say, fighter jets goes "oh come on already!" But it does look and sound damn neat.
Bruce Willis kicks butt, his good old humor is back. It's a bit different, but it's there. The other actors also do a great job, and Maggie Quigley looks smokin' hot, of course. Soundtrack isn't that fabulous really, as much of the time there wasn't even one so you could hear all the constant explosions. They seem to keep underestimating its' significance these days, considering T3 had the same problem.
Overall it's no different from any other of those over-taken explosion action flicks. Same unbelievable, unrealistic problems, etc etc. But it has Bruce Willis as himself, and a load of nostalgia value. Anyone who hasn't seen or cared about Die Hard before, probably has little to gain from this one. To them I'd say this is a 5-6. But to those who know where this is coming from, and feel they want to get one last ride back to the past, I'd give this an 8. Maybe on a same level with DH2, some ways behind 1 and 3.