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Matt Farrell: You just killed a helicopter with a car!
John McClane: I was out of bullets.
After 12 years of the release of Die hard with a vengeance, a new movie surfaced, and it was so easy to bash the movie from a far, because you don't expect it to be good after 12 years of action movies, most of them surpassed the die hard trilogy with the amount of action, budget, CGI, so it's really hard for the new die hard movie to make a valuable statement, because we all know that the previous trilogy made it big, because it was the only one at the time, so what the new movie can offer that make's it interesting?
Well, that's were we all wrong, live free or die hard was a blast to watch, it had enormous amount of action scenes, hilarious one liners "That's gonna wake the neighbors", fantastic performances, it even tried to cross the line of being 'just another action flick' with great, deep liners like: "The news is completely manipulated. Everything you hear, every single day is designed by corporate media to do one thing only. To keep you living in fear."
It even took a completely different path from the previous trilogy, focusing on hackers and how can they control things from a far, although 'Fire sale' doesn't really exist, and cyber crimes are limited to the internet, but it can serve as an 'eye-opener' about what the technology age and how changing things overtime and making it connected to the internet can also make it more vulnerable.
To me Matthew Farrell plays a very solid role in this movie, it wouldn't be the same without him, because he's everything that John McClane can't be and vise versa, which makes them really interesting to watch, every scene they were together, i had fun listing to them, and Kevin smith makes a terrific cameo, i had a blast watching him, "Get out of my command center", the villains weren't great but weren't bad either, Timothy Olyphant doesn't have an on screen charm, in fact i thought that he was annoying, but it didn't bother me that much.
Overall, i think that the die hard makers blow us away with this, proving that action movies aren't always about the action, it can be about the story and the characters and that's were they succeeded, although they kinda take it too far with the F-16 under a bridge, but what's an action movie without a little over the top.
7/10
