Good stuff, but John McClane should perhaps retire

Rating: 6/10 (11 November 2007)

Great action, good storyline, interesting side characters. Still, the feeling is that John McClane is a little old for all this. Don't get me wrong: Bruce looks still great and evidently takes care of himself to stay fit, but it didn't quite feel the same. Having said that, this is definitely one of the favorites in the saga, and it enjoys a particularly well structured screenplay with more plot points that an episode of "24". It was a good idea to team McClane up with Justin Long and Timothy Oliphant is a great villain, although he didn't look as bad as he wanted McClane to believe: Maggie Q was far worse, and it would have been great if she were kept in the story a little longer. Kind of a wasted character, really. I couldn't believe it when I saw Italian soap star Edoardo Costa in the role of one of the villains! Marco Beltrami's orchestral score is absolutely fantastic and so are the special effects.