"Live Free" didn't die too hard. (One tiny spoiler)

Rating: 9/10 (27 June 2007)

First off, the big question is concerning the PG-13 rating. I have to say that I've never been a big lobbier for movies to have harder ratings than they need (FF2 for example was 10 times better than the original), but this time the R rating would have been the right choice.
The story involves super hackers trying to basically put America to an end and John Mclane won't have any of that. The story sucks. Who cares though, right? This is Die Hard, I want to see stuff blow up. And stuff does blow up, which is nice.
But remember what I said about the PG-13 rating? Well, it keeps this movie from being Die Hard 4. It makes it a pretty cool action movie with a character who is kind of like John Mclane of Die Hard 1-3. Minus the characters first interaction with with Matt Farrell (played pretty well by Justin Long), this John Mclane is a different person. He doesn't smoke, drink, swear... none of that. Never do they even mention it. He doesn't have a hangover or need a cig or anything. Gone is the banter and wise-cracking jokes of previous outings. Gone is the Die Hard in Die Hard 4.
But this is still a pretty fun, entertaining movie. I gave it a 7 remember? Lots of things go boom. Lots of things.
Oh did I mention the bad guy? Did I mention he SUCKS? I was so hoping they would link him to Hans or Simon or something where I'd give a crap about him. He looks like he's going to cry the entire time (He almost does). Why couldn't him and Maggie Q have switched places? She was cool and then she...
SPOILERS!!!! ...dies.
John's daughter is kind of hot so that works. And Maggie Q is too. But that's really it. This movie doesn't have the pop of previous outings in the series, but it's still got more flare than most acion movies out there. It's still an awesomely enjoyable flick with one of the coolest guys out there (I'm looking at you Justin Long!... okay joking) and I will no doubt watch it again. This isn't stuff they can't fix for Die Hard 5, but I'm not sure how they could go much more large scale than this.