McClane isn't nice anymore

Rating: 2/10 (26 July 2007)

Die Hard 4 wasn't as bad as most of todays sequels of classical series (like the disastrous new "Bond movie", Superman Returns, etc.). It was even almost as funny, awesome and action filled like Die Hard 1 and 2. Die Hard 3 was just depressing stuff, which couldn't be watched as a holiday movie anymore.
So i was surprised by the quality of Die Hard 4. But 2 scenes ruined it. The first one when one of the bad guys told via walkie-talkie that McLane was at the second floor and then you hear McLane shoot him. This guy was completely defenseless and at the former Die Hard movies he simply would have knocked him out. But shooting a defenseless guy is no hero or anti hero stuff at all. Its simply bad guy stuff.
The second one was when he enters the drivers cabin of the truck at the end of the movie and killed the driver by shooting through the closed door. Once again this isn't hero behavior, this is simply first degree murder (just watch "Raiders of the lost ark" to see how things are done correctly). So McLane isn't the grouchy hero anymore, he is simply a killer. And this destroys the complete mood of the movie, which would have been otherwise good, old popcorn cinema you could watch every holiday.