John McClane- back in action

Rating: 8/10 (10 October 2008)

20 years ago Die Hard (1988) introduced us detective John McClane, played by Bruce Willis.He fought against terrorists at the Nakatomi Plaza.Two years later we saw the same cop in Washington D.C. at Dulles Airport fighting for his life.In 1995 the New York cop goes back home and goes all over city looking for bombs.Those were all good action movie.The first part is an action movie classic.I saw it for the first time in 1994 and was amazed.After seeing the third part I started waiting for the 4th part and last year it finally happened.Yippee Ki Yay! John McClane is back and he's still the cowboy! I saw the film a couple of weeks ago, September 28th.It was Sunday.I may not be as exited of it as I would have been in the late 90's but it's still pretty cool.Now McClane is fighting against cyber-terrorists that are hacking into FBI computers.That is an unknown world for this analog cop.With him he has this young guy, hacker named Matt Farrell (Justin Long).Bruce Willis is bald and a little bit older this time as John McClane.But he's still as tough.Justin Long is good as his young and scared partner.Kevin Smith is Warlock.Maggie Q is the female villain Mai Lihn that kicks.The main villain, Thomas Gabriel is played by Timothy Olyphant.He doesn't quite have what Alan Rickan had as Hans Gruber.Or William Sadler as Coloner Stuart.Or Jeremy Irons as Simon Gruber.There's also John's daughter Lucy in this part, played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead.It would have been great if Bonnie Bedelia would have reprised her role as Holly Gennero, I mean McClane.But that didn't happen since they're divorced.Len Wiseman, a director I didn't know previously directed Live Free or Die Hard (2007).In Finland and in some other countries it's known as Die Hard 4.0.John McTiernan and Renny Harlin did steady job with the previous parts.This time there's this younger fellow in charge and the movie is also for the younger audience.It's rated PG-13 instead of rated R.That's a little disappointment since after all this is Die Hard we're talking about.Why must pretty much everything be for the young teens today? But it does have some great action scenes.Take Bruce Willis and the truck for instance.Or the car colliding with the helicopter.And when he's in the elevator shaft with Mai.He was in the elevator shaft also in the first part, except this time he's there with a car.This is a nice addition to the Die Hard franchise.I guess all we can do now is wait for Die Hard 5.