"Oh man, that is all bad..."

Rating: 8/10 (28 January 2016)

Uh-oh, guilty pleasure time again. This happens occasionally with Bruce Willis and Jurassic Park dinosaur movies. Now there's not much in the film that I would consider even remotely plausible, but it's a whole lot of fun to watch. Like when John McClane rams the fire hydrant and the water spout knocks a guy out of a helicopter! Come on, how could that ever happen? But then the film makers went to that same well again when our hero takes out a second one - "You just killed a helicopter with a car!!!" Okay.....
Well look, every once in a while it's OK to give your brain a rest and just go for the gusto with something this outrageous. I liked Justin Long as the character Warren Cheswick in the 'Ed' TV series, so seeing him show up here was kind of cool. I thought the dialog between him and Bruce Willis could have been written a bit snappier, but a lot of it worked alright. The whole fire sale business was an interesting concept and makes you wonder if something like that is potentially possible by domestic or foreign terrorists. Don't really want to find out.
So if you like action flicks this one's recommended. Maybe not for all the right reasons but what the heck. You only live free or die hard once. Unless you're John McClane of course, in which case you get to do it again and again.