An Audience View - Brought Us Back To The 90s Action Movies

Rating: 9/10 (19 November 2008)

After 12 years Bruce Willis is back as John Mclane, the character that launch him into superstardom. I love the 1st and the 3rd Die Hard movies but not so the 2nd, so went i heard the 4th was coming out, i was hoping that it would not be like the 2nd of the trilogy. It turns out that this is most probably the best action movie to come out of the 21st century. Gone are the movies like Lethal Weapon, Speed or Face/Off. Those movies were popular in the 90s but Hollywood decided to stop making those type of movies entering the 21st century. We rarely see those type of action packed movies anymore where the good guys get the bad guys.
I wasn't disappointed when i went to watch this movie in the theater. The action got going right from the start and it didn't stop right to the end of the movie. This time John Mclane has a hacker as a partner played by Justin Long. Justin was convincing as the hacker because he does have a nerdy type of look in him and always play those type of characters in his previous movies. One thing i did not like about this movie is the villain. Timothy Olyphant does not look like a villain to me, he did not give a memorable 'villain' role in the movie like Alan Rickman did in the 1st or Jeremy Irons in the 3rd.
Overall this movie was great to watch and i have watched it more than once. It's good to see John Mclane again after an absent of 12 years and hopefully he does come back and kick those bad guys behind in another sequel