Goes through the motions, and after awhile it feels kinda dumb

Rating: 4/10 (22 June 2012)

Usually, when you hear mention of "Live Free or Die Hard", it's qualified with "not a good Die Hard flick, but a great action movie".
Ehhhhh.
If what you're looking for in an action movie is something that's always trying to outdo itself with bigger set pieces and unfurls with the nauseous direction of Len Wiseman, then . . . maybe you can call this great. But it's not very smart, and even less fun. And as a Die Hard movie, here's the problem: there's nothing personal in it for McClane; no wife in peril, no brother of the bad guy he killed who's forcing McClane to stampede across New York City. He's just there. He's cardboard hero guy, being billed as a superhero without a cape. and when you've got him falling out of buildings, hurling cars into helicopters and battling fighter planes, it's the Indestructible Bruce Willis Show.
Credit where it's due, it is bookended by Mary Elizabeth Winstead scenes, which is enough to keep you seated from one set of credits to the next. But the stuff in the middle isn't very good.
4/10