A Feast of High Tech, Thrills, and McClane's Bad Ass Attitude!

Rating: 6/10 (29 July 2007)

A satisfying theater experience. A fast moving combination of high tech computer problems and jargon, on-the-edge-of-your-seat action sequences rivaling the best of James Bond, and the now classic bad ass attitude and persona of 'John McClane,' totally owned by Bruce Willis.
Super touch: the juxtapositioning of McClane's '20th Century-ness' with the high tech young people and world of the 21st Century. (Hey! I'm a baby boomer!) Classic Hacker Cliché Sequences: 'Warlock,' his mother, and his wonderfully detailed 'Command Center.'
Problem: The movie was so well done that we'll forgive the Swiss cheese plot holes and the extreme stretches of credibility of some (what? not all?) of the action sequences. The most unbelievably unbelievable part: McClane falling from the jet, sliding down the collapsed freeway and getting up without injury! (The real stunt man landed in the hospital for this.) But so what?
This is the kind of movie you (okay, maybe me) pay big money for to see in the multiplex. I was sweating and jerking during some of the early action sequences, my wife was totally caught up in it and was talking to the characters on screen (she'd never done that before!), and the audience applauded at the end.
A wonderful time in the theater. Don't wait for the small screen DVD, this was made for large screens.