Live Free and Avoid This Film.

Rating: 3/10 (30 June 2015)

Live Free or Die Hard (2007): Dir: Len Wiseman / Cast: Bruce Willis, Justin Long, Timothy Olyphant, Cliff Curtis, Mary Elizabeth Winstead: Mindless action farce about risks and consequence. Agent John McClane must protect a young computer hacker from an Internet terrorist group. Standard setup leads to bang, bang, crash, boom, blam until climaxing with more bang, bang, crash, boom, blam. Director Len Wiseman stages impressive stunts against no consideration for civilian life. This is the fourth in a series that continues to go down hill in terms of quality. Bruce Willis plays McClane with usual sarcasm but that only goes so far. He spends much of the film doing implausible action where he narrowly avoids death. He also blows up a whole lot of stuff. Justin Long as the hacker is basically there to be saved. He will also take interest in McClane's daughter in a joke that isn't as funny as the filmmakers believe it is. Timothy Olyphant plays the standard moron villain who will dominate and destroy until Willis kicks his ass. Cliff Curtis appears in the F.B.I. So his role is obvious and a standard waste of time. Mary Elizabeth Winstead plays McClane's daughter whose role is the standard issue lack of understanding from parent mode. It has been twelve years since Die Hard With a Vengeance was released. Filmmakers were living free of originality and dying hard for pure crap. Score: 3 / 10