not a die hard movie

Rating: 5/10 (6 December 2009)

Some of it was fun, but this is not a Die Hard movie. The first movie is a classic in my mind and I love that movie and character. Even if the rest of the films are not perfect at least the character was intact. In this movie I did not feel as if I was watching John McClane. They should have just named the character something else and the movie might have been slightly more enjoyable. I kept being disappointed by things and I never felt as if it was a Die Hard movie. I did not like the introduction of a "young" sidekick with little to no chemistry with Bruce Willis. I am also not convinced that the actor (Tim O....) knows how to act. Everyone was actually pretty bad, even Kevin Smith. He was still probably the best actor in the movie. There were too many plot holes and I did not enjoy the hacker aspect. I seems like it is trying to be too trendy and it is annoying. Cool scenes in the movie were made less cool because John McClane does not do stuff like that. I am thinking of the car into the helicopter. I liked how he killed the villain at the end and was probably the only thing that felt right. Meh