Of course producers backed off when they realized having Goddamn in the title might have negated that PG-13 rating. is a joke. I know I will probably take one on the chin for this as most movie-goers are going to love this film.
Bruce Willis is back as John McClane and he s taking on more terrorists. For some, that s worth the price of admission alone. Then you add blowing up a helicopter with a car, a battle with a bad-ass kung-fu chick, lots of gunplay, a battle between a semi-truck and a jet plane, and most fans are going to go nuts for this movie.
However, those people don t mind that there s no plot, even though the first act began with a pretty good attempt at one. The first act introduces us to our baddie Thomas Gabriel (played by Timothy Olyphant, who I like a lot, and even like in this role), a jilted computer engineer who decides to use computer technology and a group of hackers to bring America to its knees over the Fourth of July weekend. There are some extreme leftist ideas, speaking to the disenchantment of those who would ring the phrase, I love my country, but fear my government.
At times, it almost feels anti-American, and that, to me, was extremely interesting and bold considering the political climate that we currently live in. Obviously, John McClane is going to save the day, but not before the ideas of those who live comfortably as capitalist fat cats, and blindly follow their government are questioned, right? Well, no.
Actually, what begins as an interesting premise dissolves into everything exploding, with the plot being a mere backdrop, and never actually living beyond the plot devices of the sequels that preceded it. I like Justin Long (the Mac kid, who doesn t actually use a Mac in this film), who is the buddy in this go-round of , playing a computer hacker and unwitting accomplice to Thomas Gabriel s meltdown of technology. This is pretty much the starting point of the story as there can be no witnesses and John McClane finds himself protecting the hacker with a criminal record.
There are some nice buddy moments, admittedly, and I did like this film through most of the first and second acts, but the third act becomes a parody of itself. The filmmakers have forgotten every reason why it is that they have a job making a fourth - yes fourth - Of course producers backed off when they realized having Goddamn in the title might have negated that PG-13 rating.
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