Best of the Best!

Rating: 10/10 (11 August 2013)

This is perhaps my favorite Die Hard movie. Mainly because it has John McClane trying to rebuild a relationship with his children... one at a time. In this case he is trying to have a relationship with his daughter, Lucy.
Just like the other three movies the pace starts out slowly but after about ten or fifteen minutes the action picks up. It's not so fast paced that you miss anything. Or that the movie is faster than the other movies. The pace of these movies is one element that makes them so enjoyable for me.
Bruce Willis reprises his role as John McClane. Lucy is played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Joining in the fun is Justin Long who plays Matthew Farrell; Timothy Olyphant playing the role of Thomas Gabriel, the bad guy.
If you remember, in the first movie John had to thwart the efforts of Hans Gruber in stealing money from a corporation by taking over a building and the occupants of the building became his hostages. In the second, John thwarted the efforts of a paramilitary unit from helping in the escape of a drug lord while holding an airport hostage as well as the many airplanes in the skies above. In the third movie, John must thwart the efforts of Simon Krige, better known as Hans Grubers baby brother, from stealing millions of dollars worth of gold.
In this movie, John must stop Thomas Gabriel from stealing the entire countries wealth. Gabriel tries to do this by forcing what is known as a "fire sale". A "fire sale" is where a hacker or a group of hackers take over three or more of the countries infrastructures. This can be banks, electricity, natural gas, or some other modern necessity.
Eventually, Lucy is kidnapped, so the task for john becomes one in which he must rescue her. Matthew Farrell helps John along the way, but eventually is captured as well. John comes in in the nick-of-time to save them both and kills the bad guys. But the way he kills Gabriel is probably the best I have seen in a long time.
I give this a 10 out of 10 stars.