Directed by: Len Wiseman
Starring: Bruce Willis, Timothy Olyphant, Justin Long, Maggie Q, Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
Possibly the best film of last year (compared to the crap that was Transformers, Pirates 3 and Spidey 3).
I first saw this film in the cinema but couldn't really get into the plot because of a friend who had to moan about everything he didn't agree with but I got the whole quadrilogy (£25 from Play) and watched it earlier. It's even better.
I just want to get one thing straight first; I don't class this film as a sequel to Die Hard 3 but as a different film all together (Kind of like how the DS is not an updated GBA). Most of the original Die Hard elements are not in this film (the vest for one. How could they not have the vest in it?!!) but it has it's own set of elements.
The film starts with a group of hackers sending some information to an organization of sorts and then each one of them dying in an explosion caused by the same organization.
We then see Bruce Willis watching over his daughter (he and his wife are now divorced and his daughter prefers to be called Gennero) who then gets a call to investigate some hacker guy in Washington.
This hacker, Matthew Farrell (Justin Long), sent information to the organization and is to be assassinated using a bomb placed in his computer.
Willis saves Matthew from death and then has to fight off a few henchmen when the bomb doesn't set off.
Obviously, this being the 21st century, the special effects are excellent and this film being a 12, their is hardly any gory action. Even when a guy falls into a shredder, there is no blood at all.
McClane finds out some info on the bad guy from the FBI and other hackers. The guy's name is Thomas Gabriel, an ex-FBI agent who was fired for talking out about a 'fire-sale' where a terrorist could power down the whole country.
Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant) uses the fire-sale to prove that he is right and in the process get himself some money by manipulating the stock markets.
After some excellent scenes such as the whole tunnel scene, where hundreds of cars head for McClane from each end of a tunnel in pitch darkness before McClane sends a car crashing through the bad guy's chopper, the film comes to a close with Gabriel retreating to a warehouse with McClane's captured daughter and Matt. McClane loses all logic and shoots himself in the shoulder so that the bullet goes through him and into Gabriel (slightly exaggerated but it makes for great action).
The whole story is believable on paper but not much when you see it.
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