Maybe as good as 2 but not close to 1 or 3

Rating: 6/10 (27 June 2007)

Martial Arts, Comic Book Heroes, Athletes trying to become even more famous, Unnecessary Slow Motion, Vampires fighting Werewolves, Video Game Adaptations.
What is modern action become?
It really doesn't matter. Action is dying.
And this is why I was partially excited when I heard that McClane was coming back. The return of Die Hard finally meant some action without the usual crap that drags down modern cinema. It is just too bad that this usual crap fills seats and clears shelves. With his return, McClane would bring us violence, bad language, blood, guns, explosions, quotable one-liners, crazy foreign villains and cigarettes. McClane forgot a lot of stuff when he showed up on Wednesday. "Live Free or Die Hard" stars Bruce Willis (Armageddon, Whole Nine Yards)as, the "always in the wrong place at the wrong time" NYPD Detective, John McClane. This time around we find McClane trying foil a sinister internet-terror plot overseen by the underrated Timothy Olyphant (Deadwood, Catch and Release). At first I wasn't too excited about watching the hardened McClane battle a madman, but a line from the film actually changed my mind. "You're a Rolex watch in a digital age."
Why not follow Det. McClane as he f***s up some Hackers (Seeing as this it's a PG-13 Movie I will restrict my half-ass-ed review to one F-Bomb, too). I've always been fascinated with the battle of technology and human drive. And isn't McClane just an exaggeration of a human being. Flawed, loaded with vices. If you shoot him, does he not bleed? And besides, what else is there for McClane to best?
My two main concerns going into this film were that of the PG-13 Rating and the director, Len Wiseman (Underworld, Underworld Evolution). Did I mention that I hate "Underworld"? Well, I do. I hate those films. Damn anyone that attempts to tell me they are any good. Now, that I got the mean out, I will move on. I was terrified that "Live Free or Die Hard" was going to be filled with unnecessary slow motion, bad cinematography and Scott Speedman slapping the camera. I was relieved to see that it wasn't like that at all. I could see the similarities but, nothing too terrible.
My good friend in cinema, Ash, just called me. He just got out of watching "Live Free or Die Hard". Ash liked it. He wasn't too negative. He saw the positive. We had a nice twenty minute discussion about it and I once again realized something. Sure action is dying but at least it was going down long before "Live Free or Die Hard" came out So, I'm just gonna speed this up and state that I enjoyed "Live Free or Die Hard" is was a good movie. Not Great. And certainly not a Die Hard film. But the most important thing about this movie is that it didn't take anything away from the original trilogy that convinced me to smoke, taught me that plane rides and hangovers give you superpowers and remind me to this day that, "He wasn't lying about Marco."
I'll be a white knight and give this baby a 6, sorry guys I still need a little language and blood with my DIE HARD.