PG-13 made this film just average

Rating: 6/10 (4 July 2007)

I spent my 4th of July joining Detective John McClane for yet another bad day. Unfortunately this 4th bad day limped across the finish line.
It wasn't a total disaster but the movie suits marketing this as a PG-13 film and then pretty much presenting it as PG really hurt the reason I liked the Die Hard series. They even garbled his catch phrase. UGH! I wonder if 20th Century Fox knows you can use at least one F-word in PG-13 and you can also show women topless. That would have made this film a bit better.
I want McClane to be crude, mouthy, and foul mouth. In this film he is crude and that is about it.
I liked Justin Long as the geek hacker. He had some great lines - even better than McClane.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead's "Lucy" was a treat. She seemed to be just like Dad which I enjoyed very much.
I thought the plot and ideas behind the story were interesting and something that doesn't get discussed enough in the real world and overall the film had some good, if not real plausible, action scenes.
I hope that an unrated version comes out on DVD because the PG-13 version just didn't work for me.