Live Free or Die Hard

I also saw it yesterday and enjoyed it.

And I must say that the actor playing Warlock was a hilarious surprise.

 

I really enjoyed it, although is was OVER THE TOP silly action. lol

 

Are they calling the F35 Lightning II now? The F22 used to be called that (or was that only the YF22) until they decided on Raptor.

 

I've seen it twice now, and I like it a lot. Def. a good movie, and up their with its franchise, despite being PG-13.
I loved the sarcasm as well throughout the whole movie. Def. brilliant.

"Enough of this Kung-Fu sh*t."

 

Cool. That's a nifty tidbit.

Well that seals it for me...I have to see it!

 

At first I was distracted by the grainy, blue-color adjusted art direction - were they trying to be all "techno spy" like ala Bourne Identity et al (which are great in their own right... but Die Hard is Die Hard). When they ditched the heavy Impact-style typeface for delicate, digital fonts I was a little put off. I got over that by about the DC chase scenes, but it was still notably different.

I do have to say though, as they tried to outdo #3 they really did get absurd towards the end. Like Transporter 2 absurd, and I thought that movie was just stupid. I don't want to spoil it, but during the the fighter jet scene in LFoDH I literally put my head in my hands it was so embarassing. It made the Harrier scene from True Lies look like a documentary. Not that Die Hard takes itself too seriously, but that was the hook about #1 was the grit, the pain, the basics of gravity. At the least, they made the final scenes tight and personal.

The villian was too young, too metrosexual and trying to effect a gritty tough guy voice that wasn't believable. Let's face it though, after Alan Rickman, Franco Nero, Bill Sadler and Jeremy Irons, it's hard to keep up on the villian scale. The fights with the Hawaiian girl and Willis were funny though in their political incorrectness, and all of the sexist, racist jabs by Willis to the bad guy about her.

The Kevin Smith scenes also seemed forced into the script, at least the dialogue was not natural. I guess they needed a Reginald VelJohnson-esque buddy in there. Overall, only 2 or 2.5 stars. Popcorn movie.