Monday, July 23, 2007
Live free, die later
Went and saw Die Hard 4.0 last night at my local cinema paradiso (if you can call it that) and I guess it was what was to be expected from the Die Hard franchise, lots of mean terrorists causing widespread havoc and blowing things up (not to mention John MacLean).
Speaking of which the plot roughly is that John MacLean is now divorced from his wife and he's trying to look out for his enstranged daughter Lucy (who appeared as little girl in the first film), then he receives a call from his HQ that he's to take a computer hacker Matt Farrell to the justice department. But of course things go very pear shaped as a team of terrorists make an attempt on Matt's life as MacLean intercedes and saves the young guy's life, and the terrorists get a little miffed and want them both dead, and well... you get the gist.
The only problem I have with these sort of action movies is that as usual its all about the biggest spectacles, the biggest stunts you have ever scene, and whatever credibility there was left over from the original Die Hard, by now its all completely went out the window. To say that Die Hard 4.0 is far fetched is putting it somewhat midly, but what the hell, don't get me wrong, its still good fun. Bruce is as ever really entertaining to watch in the role as the down to earth, not to mention impossible to kill John MacLean, Justin Long as Matt Farrell was ok, although I found him a bit annoying at times (no wonder MacLean keeps telling him to shut up). One scene I found a bit stupid was when MacLean and Farrell break into a car and MacLean is about to hotwire and Farrell says don't do that and instead wastes about 2 minutes speaking to the car's voice recognition in order to get it started, they could have been away in less than half that time! I was also rather surprised by the inclusion of MacLean's ability to fly a chopper, but they do rather neatly mention he took some lessons to get over his fear of flying (which didn't help him much).
The film despite its silly moments also some of its little pleasures, Kevin Smith as the hacker, Warlock, was great, he just seemed to appear at the right moment in the movie and I even had forgot he was to suppose to be in it. Maggie Q looks rather good in this film as well as getting to kick Bruce's ass (in fact this whole film seemed to be about kicking Bruce's ass to make him even bloodier than the last time!), which prompts one of Bruce's best lines "That ninja chick you sent, was smokin' hot!".
So if you want to watch the usual mindless action and explosions, then Die Hard 4.0 just might be the one to watch this summer.
Speaking of which the plot roughly is that John MacLean is now divorced from his wife and he's trying to look out for his enstranged daughter Lucy (who appeared as little girl in the first film), then he receives a call from his HQ that he's to take a computer hacker Matt Farrell to the justice department. But of course things go very pear shaped as a team of terrorists make an attempt on Matt's life as MacLean intercedes and saves the young guy's life, and the terrorists get a little miffed and want them both dead, and well... you get the gist.
The only problem I have with these sort of action movies is that as usual its all about the biggest spectacles, the biggest stunts you have ever scene, and whatever credibility there was left over from the original Die Hard, by now its all completely went out the window. To say that Die Hard 4.0 is far fetched is putting it somewhat midly, but what the hell, don't get me wrong, its still good fun. Bruce is as ever really entertaining to watch in the role as the down to earth, not to mention impossible to kill John MacLean, Justin Long as Matt Farrell was ok, although I found him a bit annoying at times (no wonder MacLean keeps telling him to shut up). One scene I found a bit stupid was when MacLean and Farrell break into a car and MacLean is about to hotwire and Farrell says don't do that and instead wastes about 2 minutes speaking to the car's voice recognition in order to get it started, they could have been away in less than half that time! I was also rather surprised by the inclusion of MacLean's ability to fly a chopper, but they do rather neatly mention he took some lessons to get over his fear of flying (which didn't help him much).
The film despite its silly moments also some of its little pleasures, Kevin Smith as the hacker, Warlock, was great, he just seemed to appear at the right moment in the movie and I even had forgot he was to suppose to be in it. Maggie Q looks rather good in this film as well as getting to kick Bruce's ass (in fact this whole film seemed to be about kicking Bruce's ass to make him even bloodier than the last time!), which prompts one of Bruce's best lines "That ninja chick you sent, was smokin' hot!".
So if you want to watch the usual mindless action and explosions, then Die Hard 4.0 just might be the one to watch this summer.
# posted by kenny @ 9:49 am 
