a worthy addition to the die hard franchise, and here is exactly why...

Rating: 9/10 (27 June 2007)

this was an amazing film, worthy of the die hard title. granted, it took like 15 minutes for bruce willis to stop doing his john mcclane impression and leave the movie so john mcclane can step in and take over, but it happened right before john knocked down the helicopter, when he was talking to himself "all you had to do was take a kid from jersey to dc, whats so hard about that" or something to that effect. let me tell you why this was a die hard movie, but this explanation only makes sense if you think that the original trilogy is incredible. first, every die hard gets bigger, and if i need to spell it out for you, its first a building, then an airport then a city, and now half the eastern seaboard. it just gets bigger and bigger every time. second, every movie, except for the second, which is the worst of the trilogy but still is one of the top 3 action movies of all time, has mcclane and his personal problems with his marriage, which would obviously transfer to his children, namely his daughter in this movie, so people complaining that it was too personal mcclane and not ass kicking mcclane just don't understand what die hard is. third, how can he survive these things? that is what peole are saying, and they are saying that it is unrealistic. if you watched, enjoyed and believed the first three movies, then this should have no problem to realism. in the first movie he took a lot more punishment than he did in this movie. he walked on glass, bungee jumped with a fire hose, got shot in the arm, been knocked over by a huge ass explosion, jumped through an elevator shaft. that was the first movie, so why are people so quick to judge this movie. i repeat, if someone were to say, well, then i have that complaint that its not realistic for the first movies also, then they are not die hard fans. die hard fans know that john will take these punishments and keep going. in fact, in this movie it was more realistic, because during the time he had to travel from place to place, he could bandage himself up and stuff. fourth, the pg13 rating. what i think happened, and this is just a wild guess, was that the editors, producers and whoever else, watched the movie, realized that the blood was within pg13 tolerance, and the f word was said only a dozen times at most. they were thinking, why don't we just dub over those dozen or so f words and open this amazing franchise to a slightly younger crowd. you could tell when the words didn't match with the lips, but all in all it was a forgivable judgment call on their part, and who cares because there's probably gonna be an "unrated" DVD anyway, with those beloved swear words right back in. so, if you like the original doe hards, then there is no reason to not like this new addition, and frankly iwould be very happy to see another chapter or 2 in the mclane sage, so long as the sixth one isn't called "live free or die hard 2: live free or die harder."
ps- any real die hard fan should know that all odd die hard movies have to do with the grubers and all even die hard movie have to do with shutting down a well protected system and taking it over. if you didn't know that, then you got watch the movies a few more times