Die Hard with hokum

Rating: Null/10 (4 July 2007)

When faced with the usual made by numbers mish mash action film, you hang on to the odd funny lines or maybe something good going in under the covers. There is little to cheer here, just lost time.
Bruce Willis rolls around effectively. The geek is too Neo like but workable. The action scenes are ridiculous, the plot problems appear faster than the script team can rewrite, and there are a few genuine Attack of the Clones style clangers.
But the action is nothing if not well directed, and entertainment does not have to be great. The computer scenes are improving - no longer do we see an entire screen dedicated to saying "You have mail" or other movie only software. Americas growing awareness that 9/11 was probably not quite what it seemed is not derided here, nor is it milked.