An almost flawless specimen of the genre

Rating: Null/10 (24 February 2013)

This one really was a lot of fun. Maybe it's because they added the extra interest of seeing how a giant nation might be brought to it's knees. I loved the hacker kid and his droll patronizing retorts to Mclain and his innocent concern for the aging warhorses health as he gathers massive crunchy contusions along the way. I lived the villain and his sneaky crew of blackhats. And the daughter was perfectly cast and did a great evocation of Mcains hot grumpy daughter. But most of all the sheer scale and audacity of the action set pieces was too good to be true. There was not a single moment when the CGI team did not deliver, It was all so bone-crunchingly authentic, and cool looking too. Careful lighting and cinematography turned them into modern pieces of chaotic balletic mayhem. And there was little of the really nasty sadistic stuff too. No torture or gory beatings, at least not more than necessary. Grateful for that. A really good days work.