Just came back from it...I'll post my thoughts while they're fresh.
The Good:
- Bruce Willis the heart and soul of this film and delivers the same McClane we know and love.
- Some of the action is clever, explosive and entertaining all at once, particularly the car chase scene.
- Justin Long did not bother me as much as I thought he would. He actually has a few good one-liners.
- Though I'm out of her league, there was something sexy about Lucy McClane that I'd love to stick my dick into. Maybe I like tough broads after all...
The Bad:
- This movie made me hate our society's obsession with technology more than I already do. Call me old-fashioned, and yes I realize the irony of this statement as I type on a computer that I upgrade regularly, but sometimes I just want my stories not to be overcomplicated by techno-babble or my plots to be half-assed because technology can somehow solve any quandry and get our heroes out of impossible situations.
- The villain sucks. This mostly has to do with my first point. Ooooo....Mr. computer nerd is fed up with life after he got shafted by the government....give me a fucking break.
- All secondary characters are cookie-cutter and boring. In fact, the script itself is pretty bad. Everything in between the set pieces is boring (when things aren't exploding you're watching nerds type on computer screens - I swear to God there's not non-action scene that doesn't have someone working on a computer problem/hacking). It's boring as hell and there's no immediate sense of danger.
So I guess you can boil the film down to a) good action b) lame story.
Here's my rankings:
Die Hard
Die Hard with a Vengeance (I still think this movie is underrated. It's funny, has a good villain and the action has great pacing - at least until the end)
Die Hard 2: Die Harder
Live Free or Die Hard
Go see it though, it's better than most of the shit we've seen this summer.
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