John McClane Saves the summer!

Rating: 8/10 (29 June 2007)

Let's be honest, so far this summer movie season has sucked eggs. Though I throughly enjoyed Spiderman 3, I admit it was a bit overdone and I know a ton of people who hated Spidey's third outing. Pirates 3 was pretty good, but it was too long. The Fantastic Four 2 sucked out loud and every other big summer popcorn movie hasn't delivered what it promised, except Die Hard 4. I was and still am annoyed by the PG-13 Rating, and for weeks before the film opened I was calling it Die Kind Sorta Hard, but the film surprised me. The film I was sure would be a flaming turd turned out to be a fun, diverting, surprisingly clever 2 hours of pure joygasm style entertainment. There is no doubt the movie is flawed, the villain is a wimp, the plot is outlandish but slightly plausible, and there are massive plot holes, but the film still delivers. I have no doubt that if there had been any other character in this film but John McClane, we'd all be tearing this flick a new piehole, but we aren't because the character of John McClane is a winner and he saves this movie from mediocrity. I have no doubt without McClane this movie would be a 5 out of 10, but Willis and his alter ego elevate this material above standard and turn it into something sadly missing this summer pure entertainment. The movie is not a classic like the first one (the best action film of all time), in fact Die Hard 4 is the worst one of the series, and the fact I am still giving it an eight shows how strong this series truly has been. So I would like to take this opportunity to thank John McClane for once again entertaining the hell out of me, and heres hoping we see him again soon.