Suspension of belief

Rating: 3/10 (7 July 2007)

I can't believe most reviewers are so positive about this movie. 8 out of 10? come on! I like a good action movie as much as the next guy and the original Die Hard is one of my favorite action movies of all time. This one however lost me about twenty minutes in, because it just got too... ridiculous, for lack of a better word.
When I go to see summer blockbusters, my expectations are already lower than usual. But this year's box-office-hit-wannabe's have reached an all time low (or I just got too old for this sh#t). Film makers have long since given up on story line, continuity and character development. This year, they also seem to have given up on trying to convince the audience that what they are seeing is in any way possible. This movie has no vampire/werewolf hybrids, super heroes, magical prodigies or even undead pirates, but it might as well have, because that wouldn't have made the big scenes any more unbelievable.
I don't understand why every movie needs to be bigger than the last, because bigger automatically leads to "more and more unbelievable". The way thing are going now, in a few years we'll be watching movies that consist of nothing but one long action-scene.
I won't make a list of things that bothered me about this one. I will however give my advise to viewers: go see it if you must. Preferably do that in a theater with a really big screen. But, if you loved Die Hard, really liked Die Harder, but -like me- really DISliked the third one... don't expect this one to be any better! In fact, try not to think of it as a sequel to the first two (take away the title and Bruce and there's no Die Hard left).
PS. Two things about this movie I did like: Maggie Q and Timothy Olyphant.