Will a NEW boxed set be coming out soon ?

Rating: 5/10 (12 August 2007)

ooof ! Has anyone ever heard of going out at the top of your game?! I think that's what should have happened with this franchise.
I really like Bruce Willis and have enjoyed his movies for many years, and I think that he's one of the best actors around, but quite frankly, he, and the producers, really should have passed on this one. Does he need the money or something? After watching this film in the theater I went home and broke out my 'Director's Cut Die Hard Boxed Set' and watched them all over again on plasma with surround sound. It amazes me how much better all of them were than this. In this most recent endeavor, there's lots of shoot 'em up, explosions, chases, decent plot, sufficient wise cracks for Willis, scoring and editing were fine. But somehow the thing just didn't fly for me. It may sound petty but I think that it was the little things like the "continuity" of Willis' injuries. He gets injured numerous times, and is visibly bleeding yet, in the next scene, or a couple of scenes forward, there is not much visible to attest to his previous, seemingly serious injuries, yet the plot unfolds within a relatively narrow time frame. Bacatracin? Neosporine?
I guess it's all irrelevant, though. Willis' star power will ensure that this flick will gross lots and lots of money worldwide, and it really isn't BAD....just not as good as I had HOPED it would be.
Wait for the DVD rental......skip the new boxed set.