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Die Hard 4.0 [2007]
 
Die Hard 4.0 [2007]
Twelve years after Die Hard with a Vengeance, the third and previous film in the Die Hard franchise, Die Hard 4.0 finds John McClane (Bruce Willis) a few years older, not any happier, and just as kick-ass as ever. Right after he has a fight with his college-age daughter (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), a call comes in to pick up a hacker (Justin Long, Dodgeball) who might help the FBI learn something about a brief security blip in their systems. Now any Die Hard fan knows that this is when the assassins with foreign accents and high-powered weaponry show up, telling McClane that once again he's stumbled into an assignment that's anything but routine. Once that wreckage has cleared, it is revealed that the hacker is only one of many hackers who are being targeted for extermination after they helped set up a "fire sale," a three-pronged cyberattack designed to bring down the entire country by crippling its transportation, finances, and utilities. That plan is now being put into action by a mysterious team (Timothy Olyphant, Deadwood, and Maggie Q, Mission: Impossible 3) that seems to be operating under the government's noses. Die Hard 4.0 uses some of the cat-and-mouse elements of Die Hard with a Vengeance along with some of the pick-'em-off-one-by-one elements of the now-classic original movie. And it's the most consistently enjoyable installment of the franchise since the original, with eye-popping stunts (directed by Len Wiseman of the Underworld franchise), good humour, and Willis's ability to toss off a quip while barely alive. Yippee-ki-ay! --David Horiuchi
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Customer Reviews for Die Hard 4.0 [2007]
A film too far ! posted on 2009-01-05
This sequel to the previous brilliant Die Hard films was hardly worth making. I can only assume that Bruce Willis was offered an astronomical fee for it. The action sequences had lots of noise and action but were hardly believable. Really, driving a truck under a bridge that's being bombed and collapsing around you is far fetched to say the least. I'm quite a computer boffin, but the computer jargon could only have been understood by a degree student or a hacker. Not exactly the right plot line for the average citizen over 40 I wouldn't have thought.

Oh and Bruce - you were good to look at once, please let some hair grow on your head, or even wear a toupee, because you look like a turnip these days.
 
Die even Harder? posted on 2008-11-24
Die Hard 4.0 is suffers in comparison to the original.
Die Hard is a peerless action film, it was so good that it created a whole new sub genre of a lone man trapped in a confined environment surrounded by terrorists. It was suspenseful, clever, elegant and exceptionally well made. What was so good about it was the way it avoided every cliché in the book. The conventional scene where the hero's girl is held at gunpoint by the villain is brilliantly resolved by the use of gift tape. I know that I am not alone in saying that I've seen the film over twenty times and would gladly see it again.
Die Hard 4.0 is an exciting but not very plausible action thriller. The villain I feel I've seen before in countless other films and the setup is nothing new. Despite some decent action and some nice one liners it all feels very familiar. The conventional scene in which the hero's daughter this time is held at gunpoint is resolved in a macho and unconvincing way. I've seen the film once and have no plans to see it again.
It was nice to see Bruce Willis in the role again and the film isn't a mess by any means. I was going to give it three stars but Die Hard 2 is a three star film as it still has its great moments.
So I guess its Die Hard 2.0 out of five.
 
Good solid action movie posted on 2008-11-04
This is an entertaining movie, it's got some great stunts and good car chases. The violence has been toned right down but the film is still very enjoyable in a daft kind of way.
 
Good but Lightweight Entertainment posted on 2008-10-08
The original Die Hard was one of the best action films ever made, I have a copy and tend to dig it out once a year to rewatch it. It is without question the high point of Bruce Willis acting career.
None of the three sequels have lived up to the original though this is probably the best of the bunch.
A dozen years after the mediocre Die Hard 3, John McClane if not the happiest of people has at least largely got his life together and is working as a police detective when just about to knock off shift and go home he is ordered to pick up Matt Farrell a hacker that the FBI want to question with regards to an ongoing investigation. He arrives at Farrells apartment as the same time as half a dozen heavily armed assassins turn up for the express purpose of preventing Farrell from going anywhere. He rescues Farrell and hauls him off to Washington just as the entire USA starts to fall apart when the bad guys start taking over all the computers and causing chaos, the same bad guys who want Farrell (one of the few people who can fix things) dead. The rest of the film consists of McClaine trying to keep Farrell alive, track down the bad guys, rescue his daughter Lucy who (standing in for her mother Holly as the gutsy damsel in distress) has been taken hostage by the villains and of course he has to save the day and prevent the complete collapse of the United States.
Bruce Willis doesn't have all that much of an acting range but the roles he can play he plays well and when it comes to playing burnt out has been tough guys he really is the cream of the crop.
He is given excellent support by Timothy Olyphant who plays Farrell as an amusing and likeable nerd, Mary Elizabeth Winsted (who looks enough like Bonnie Bedelia to be her daughter) plays Lucy and like Bonnie in the original movie is given enough to do to be a character in her own right.
Justin Long though no Alan Rickman is sufficiently menacing as the villain, Cliff Curtis is the FBI Boss who actually believes McClaine is on the level and finally Maggie Q beats people up and looks good in tight clothing.
This is a fast moving action flick with plenty of excitement and snappy one-liners to keep things moving along without the need to worry greatly about the plot or whether or not it's believable.
 
A sad way to add to a franchaise posted on 2008-09-22
As a staunch fan of each and every one of the original trilogy, I was excited to hear that a fourth was being being released. Sadly though, I was disappointed but not surprised.

I dislike sequels where little or no references are made to previous adventures, or worse still, when the only returning actors/actresses are the heroes themselves. An exception to this being Die Hard With a Vengeance, which managed to pull this off perfectly with a strong supporting cast.
This sequel though doesn't. The inclusion of Lucy Mcclane as his daughter just isn't enough. I found myself extremely bored whilst watching it and all this high tech nonsense doesn't fit in with the leading character.

There have been no positive contributions made to this film and as a stand alone film, this may warrant watching however, if you are a fan of the originals, Don't bother. By all means, watch this but just forget that he is called John Mcclane and that the film is called Die Hard.

Sorry.


 
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