Entertaining sequel successfully transformed for the modern day

Rating: 6/10 (18 April 2010)

At first glance you kind of say "A new Die Hard, 12 years after the last, why?". When I watched this film I felt that way, but quickly I began to enjoy it. There was an interesting plot- more interesting even than the first two Die Hard films. The characters were interesting. The villain was well written and played well- the problem with Die Hard 2. The action sequences were played out to a modern audience but underneath there was still this old-school cop who wasn't fully tuned into this modern world. Unfortunanely it did descend into some action scenes that were stupid even for a Die Hard film and seemed to build to a climax and then not really go anywhere. Still fairly enjoyable though.