"Live Free or Die Hard" resurrects John McClane (Bruce Willis), the original one man anti-terror unit, who gets things done with bullets, explosions and snappy one-liners. Back for the fourth movie in the series, McClane now faces dastardly cyber-terrorists bent on shutting down the country's infrastructure with the idea of making off with billions (or trillions, either way it's a whole lot) of dollars in the process. McClane is once again "that guy," as he just happens to be in the right place at the right time to make things blow up and make bad guys dead.
Tagging along with McClane is super hacker Matt Farrell (Justin Long), who is there to provide moral support and counter-cyber-terrorism, in addition to occasionally reminding us how badass McClane is by playing the "don't shoot me I'm just a nerd" character, which compliments McClane's The plot is pretty much irrelevant, all viewers (at least those new to the series) need to know is that McClane lives free, as opposed to the alternative, and the bad guys get to be the ones who die hard. And they do. Dropped down an elevator shaft in an exploding car, shredded in some kind of whirling fan device, having their helicopter hit by a car.
McClane can drive cars into helicopters. Do not question McClane. But what is his motivation for destruction?
Besides the fact that they're terrorists, the evil doers try to kill Farrell while in McClane's care, try to bring down the entire U.S. computer system and, to top it all off, kidnap his daughter.
Of course, this just pisses him off, and he ends up killing them all. (Suprise! The good guys win in the end.
) If you can get past the obvious ridiculousness of a 60-year-old rolling out of cars at full speed and beating up sexy karate ladies, the movie is fun to watch. It's amped up on testosterone, and there is no shortage of action. "Live Free or Die Hard" resurrects John McClane (Bruce Willis), the original one man anti-terror unit, who gets things done with bullets, explosions and snappy one-liners.
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