Overdone But Still Good Old Entertainment

Rating: 7/10 (1 August 2007)

To straighten it out firstly it's as the title said a valuable entertainment flick, no doubt about that.
But and the but is strong, because it's this time obviously overdone and too exerted to top off the prequels.
This slightly damages the overall impression of this movie. The fact that all Die Hard movies were all a tab unrealistic and overdone is beyond dispute but nonetheless this time some sequences appear simply unauthentic. In my opinion this is due to the large gap between part 4 and the "original" trilogy. For the recent scenario forced the production to go out of the usual league of effects and action scene.
The jet-scene for example is downright cool and a feast for the eyes regarding the effects but it deprives the story of its intensity at the end of the movie.
Indisputably is furthermore that Bruce Willis couldn't have performed any better, that Justin Long played a good part as McClane's companion and that the two of them formed a ingenious couple of different character but this Die Hard remains incomparable to the prequels. It's more like a stand-alone part which assembles some of the old movies' features.
Nevertheless my aim is not to pan this movie, on the contrary I loved it but the flaws, I mentioned above, made it just another Die Hard movie and not the long-awaited highlight of the series.
My favorite Die Hard should thus remain the very first part , Die Hard 1.