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Rating: Null/10 (7 December 2013)

"Live Free or Die Hard" is an inept action movie from cinematic ultra-hack Len Wiseman. Like its predecessors, the film stars Bruce Willis as a cranky cop who's having the worse damn day of his life. His problem? Bad guys and doing bad stuff. His solution? Stop bad guys.
The first three "Die Hard" movies belonged to a now dead era. An era before your granny had a cell phone and before every bad guy on the planet had a laptop that allows him to hack into NASA. Better yet, they all featured Willis as a regular guy – wisecracking but believable - trapped in a confined space, faced with ludicrous problems and with nothing at his disposal. "Live Free" throws out this formula, and instead takes place across an entire country, gives Willis lots of assistance, problems he can walk away from and of course saddles him with a PG13 rating. Throw in copious bad CGI, and an aesthetic which looks like CCTV footage of blue cement, and you have yet another feature-length reason to revoke Wiseman's directorial license.
2/10 - Try harder.