What is wrong with critics?

Rating: 9/10 (27 January 2019)

Live Free or Die Hard is the fourth installment in the Die Hard franchise and stars Bruce Willis as John McClane. In this newest edition John McClane has to escort this hacker to Washington D.C. before some cyber terrorists kill him. After John McTiernan left after directing Die Hard and Die Hard with a Vengeance, the studio brought in Len Wiseman to take up the reigns. Len Wiseman is known for directing the Underworld movies and what he gave us is an MTV music video that's very gothic. And what I like about this new Die Hard is instead of dealing with your typical bland terrorists they substitute that and give us cyber terrorists, which is a scary thought if you think about it. And John McClane is useless when it comes to technology because he's a 19th century person living in a 21st century world so he has to have a sidekick who's familiar with technology. And just like Die Hard with a Vengeance where Samuel L Jackson was the sidekick this new sidekick played by Justin Long is equally as good as Samuel L Jackson. Live Free or Die Hard is like 1984 and Brave New World of action movies without making it too dystopian where the main villain played by timothy Olyphant acts like as a sort of big brother meets Mustapha Mond if he were a real person. He's not like Hans Gruber or Simon Gruber, but he's entertaining as he channels in his inner rage, and you hate him, but everything that comes out of his mouth is hilarious. I should address that unlike the previous Die Hard's, which had an R rating, this Die Hard has a PG-13 rating so John McClane won't say his catchphrase. And because of this there were so many critics complaining and whining about how this isn't John McClane or this isn't a Die Hard movie. And my response is people need to relax. This definitely counts as a Die Hard movie. I mean it may be different because it has a new breed of terrorists, but it's still Die Hard nonetheless. And you can still buy the DVD and switch it to the unrated version where you can still hear John McClane's famous catchphrase. Its not like Len Wiseman isn't going to make his own Die Hard movie and not give us what we want. He still gives us the Die Hard and John McClane that we all know and love, just in his own unique way. So in the end, I say don't listen to the critics go out and see this movie and experience a different side of Die Hard that has the right ingredients of a summer blockbuster.