Just plain simply DEPRESSING .... :-(

Rating: 1/10 (19 July 2007)

Come on, this gets an 8,0-voting on IMDb ?? Who are those viewers, who think this is a superb movie ? I saw it yesterday, because I liked the first 3 (esp. 1, of course) movies, but it was nothing short of a let-down. Just plain awfully depressing.
Willis is still OK, but the whole movie is nothing but stupid popcorn-cinema. After the overlong 2 hours 10 minutes were over I had the impression the producer, "director", scriptwriter and whoever else, set out to make the most unbelievable, ridiculous, unrealistic movie imaginable.
The whole storyline is laughably unrealistic (even AFTER 9/11 !) and utterly implausible. It doesn't do the picture any harm, but speaks volumes about the script that even at the end it is NOT clear, what the bad guys actually wanted: money, destabilize the USA, bring down the financial system, revenge, destroy capitalism, ... whatever ? Sure, the motives are unnecessary, it's just an overproduced multi-million dollar star-vehicle anyway, but still, it shows how little care was given to any "character development".
But that's the least problem this movie has.
It's plain simply boring, too! The first 10, 20 minutes have some nice scenes, but when the action starts its just run-of-the mill stuff, and most action scenes are just computer-animated cartoons: unrealistic looking and completely implausible. That does not create any tension (at least not for me).
Besides, its direction is completely uninspired. Who is Len Wiseman ? After this picture I don't care. Tiernan and Harlin, who made 1 & 3, respectively 2, are directors, who know their craft. Especially Tiernan knows his job and has done some brilliant work: DH I, Predator, Hunt for Red October, but obviously he didn't want to do # 4. I understand why, with this script. Renny Harlin is no match to Tiernan but still did a lot better job than Wiseman. Wisemans direction is plain simply uninspired.
Die Hard 4 tries "hard" for humor, but it all comes over very forced. The dialog is even bad for a silly action flick, all this stupid blabla about heroes, it just does not fit (it fits into a John Wayne flick, but not into a DIE HARD-movie, it's simply uncool there - Willis looks bored in these scenes anyway, I guess he would have thrown out this dialogue, if it would have been his decision).
The MUSIC by Beltrami is nothing short of lacking ANY compository skill, it's just VERY loud and pounding noise, impossible to listen to.
A real let-down, depressing to see this last entry. Now I know why Willis did not want to do a # 4 and am sure no # 5 will ever be made (unless he would need a lot of money). Still, even in this mess of a movie, Willis does come off best, which speaks for him.
Nothing anybody has to see, just skip it and remember # 1 (to # 3, which I consider the second best entry).