Nice action but nothing new

Rating: 7/10 (12 September 2007)

It has been 10 years or so since Die Hard 3, which personally I still think it's the best.
Die Hard 4.0 was a thrill-ride of action scenes and some superb special effects, the one scene in the tunnel comes to mind when Bruce launches a car over the crash barrier into an awaiting helicopter.
But the story was a bit too far fetched, okay cyber crime is generally the biggest threat to western society although Mr. Bush still thinks that this would be men wearing turbans and beards hiding sticks of dynamite attached to their bodies under their jumpers.
But the cyber-terrorism as dangerous as it is, was a bit too over the top in true American fashion; as an IT consultant and security engineer I trip over these sci-fi scenarios the real thing is just as scary and could've been a great ingredient for the movie as well.
The biggest problem I have with this movie is the fact that it ends in an anti-climax. In all the Die Hard movies the baddie dies in the most horrible gruesome way and here he's simply shot dead. At least the infamous online "Yippy-ka-yee...." is still in there.
So in short: An amusing movie but not the best Die Hard and I guess now it's enough and I'd like to see Bruce act in an emotional role such as 6th Sense or Unbreakable again.