Lots of fun but not as good as "with a vengeance"

Rating: 7/10 (27 June 2007)

I saw this two nights ago at a press screening in NYC. I have to say, this movie was so much fun to watch. Usually press screenings can be pretty dry, what with all the critics in the audience, but 3 or 4 times during the movie, the action got so intense, the sequences were so over the top, ridiculous and great that the audience bust out screaming and applauding. Sure, they were working in the confines of the series and sometimes it shows and sometimes you're wondering why Big Mac is 10 years older yet even more willing and able than in previous installments but that's easily shirked off by how gripping the action is. With a Vengeance is still, in my opinion, the masterpiece of the series but 4.0 is killer fun and delivers the goods unlike most of the other summer blockbusters that have come out so far this year. *cough* Ocean's 13 *cough* Spidey 3 *cough*