Product Description: "The best of the best is back and better than ever" (WNYW-TV) in the latest installment of the pulse-pounding thrill-a-minute Die Hard action films. New York City detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) delivers old-school justice to a new breed of terrorists when a massive computer attack on the U.S. infrastructure threatens to shut down the entire country over Independence Day weekend.System Requirements:Run time: 130 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/POLICE & DETECTIVE FILMS Rating: NR UPC: 024543476160 Manufacturer No: 2247616
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Twelve years after Die Hard with a Vengeance, the third and previous film in the Die Hard franchise, Live Free or Die Hard 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, a.k.a. the "Apple guy") 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.
Live Free or Die Hard 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 humor, and Willis's ability to toss off a quip while barely alive. There was some controversy over the film's PG-13 rating--there might be less blood than usual, and McClane's famous tag line is somewhat obscured--but there's still has plenty of action and a high body count. Yippee-ki-ay! --David Horiuchi
Incredible Bruce Willis fun & entertainment. A dream movie for us "Walter Mitty" types -- living vicariously thru a movie that lets you pretend you let yourself loose to do justice to bad guys.
Fantastic Film....but Fox lied on the back cover! Buyer beware!!!....on the back of this release it says "Music Video: 'Die Hard' performed by Guyz Nite" and "Behind the Scenes with Guyz Nite Featurette"....both are bold-faced LIES!! There is no video or featurette on this one (at least I couldn't find them. If anyone knows where they are I'll retract this statement). I guess Fox's idea is to bait the moron consumer by listing these unavailable features so you'll spend another $35 bucks (and thank you Amazon for offering the DVD for MUCH less than that!) on the 2 disc Special Edition that actually DOES have these features!!
This is a fantastic movie, but if I had paid $8 to see it in the theater in it's original PG-13 'kiddies' version, I would have beat the theater owner to a pulp and taken my $8 back!!!
It's really a serious sad statement of human morals when it's ok to rate a movie PG-13 for a movie that shows people shot in the head and people being gunned to death....but when a simple "F" word gets uttered it forces the MPAA to rate it R!!!! So, the utterance of the "F" word is worse than people being slaughtered? That's just pathetic. And why bother censoring the movie so it would get a PG-13 anyway? The first 3 Die Hard's were all rated R....it didn't seem to limit their popularity at all!! It's not a REAL Die Hard movie without hearing John McClane utter the famous line "Yippee-Ki-Yay Mother F*****"!! is it? That's like removing the line "Asta la Vista" from Terminator 2, or "I coulda been a contenda" from On The Waterfront!! What's the point???
If you like special features but don't like being scammed and lied to, buy the 2 disc Special Edition of this film before you plunk $30 down (and again, thank you Amazon for offering it for MUCH less than that!!!.....Amazon ROCKS!!) for this version, which most obviously makes you believe there are features on the disc that do not exist!!
Otherwise...what a cool 3rd sequel to one of the best action films ever made!!! I'm probably dreaming here, but I'd love to see Bruce Willis make a couple more of these before it's all over!
die hard 4 good movie if you liked the first three, not as good as 1 or 3 but better then 2.i don't think this will leed to #5.
AKA "Die Hard 4.0" and Beware of Motion Sickness! Known in Australia as "Die Hard 4.0" this is an excellent movie and a worthy addition to the Die Hard series.
But be warned - the same chimpanzee that threw the camera around wildly from time to time in The Bourne Ultimatum has been hired for some shots in this movie too. Sometimes the camera is jerking around so aimlessly that it may not only confuse your sense of what is happening story-wise, it may cause nausea and motion sickness. This is purely moments of crazy camera work that snuck by the editor (or looked cool on a tiny editing screen?) - the movie overall is great!
John McClane - Action Hero for the Ages I remember the Summer of 1988 just like it was yesterday. I remember my first glimpse of Bruce Willis as John McClane just like it was yesterday. I remember seeing Die Hard seven times in the theater, thinking this is the most fantastic action movie till that point. Guess what?, it still is the best in my book.
However, that is not the movie this review is supposed to be about, but then again it is. Live Free was my most anticipated movie of the summer of 2007. I felt for sure that it would be a letdown and that there would no way to recapture the glory of the original Die Hard. However, I went into optimistic, that the glory of 1988 would be recaptured, that John McClane would, once again, rule the day.
Just how would John McClane relate to this tech saavy generation? Would he still be the same ole blue collar action hero or would be somehow transformed to fit in the 2000's?
Survey says, Same Ole John and wee different Die Hard. Of course, nothing could ever capture the claustrophobic excess of Nakatomi Plaza and they didn't try. Score one for Live Free. It is a wide open computer era action flick with one of the most stone cold, I'm gonna do it my way, the 80's way action hero.
Needless to say, I liked Live Free. It is not in the same galaxy as the original, but in its own right a glorified action romp that will satisfy even the most hungry of 80's fried action fans.
The blu ray is specatacular. The picture quality lives up to Fox's most impressive transfers and the all encompassing sound track will blow you away.
Now for a little cheese with my wine; I would have loved to seen the unrated version on blu. However, that cannot affect the review, because overall it's a great package and a great movie.
Simply stated, it's not Die Hard, but it is Live Free or Die Hard.
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