Fun, but ...

Rating: 5/10 (2 July 2007)

Just saw the latest Die Hard installment and am a little bit surprised about the raving reviews and the Top 250 ranking ... I was not exactly disappointed by the movie and thought it was entertaining as expected - but this is by no means Top 250 material (and I expect it to drop out as soon as the rest of the voters catch up with the probably less critical Die Hard fans ...).
Willis again is great in his role, and the clash of generations between him and his hacker buddy makes for a lot of funny dialogue. Also, the action is fun to watch - however, there are too many letdowns to make this a real success.
Overall, it had too much of a comic book character - granted, the characters are larger than life, but for me personally this only works to a certain degree.
Firstly, it is so ridiculous when the hero is being shot at by professionals with automatic guns at fairly short distance and gets away - the car is perforated by bullet holes, but the people in the car remain unharmed ...
Then, I really get annoyed by all the hacker and computer nonsense - there is so much cyder-crap in the movie that I won't even start listing it.
Finally, the scene with the F-35 fighter just ruined it for me - this was so over the top that it was laughable ...
To sum it up, I would say: funny, but forgettable ...