Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 200
Fresh: 164 | Rotten: 36
Live Free or Die Hard may be preposterous, but it's an efficient, action-packed summer popcorn flick with thrilling stunts and a commanding performance by Bruce Willis. Fans of the previous Die Hard films will not be disappointed.
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 31 | Rotten: 8
Live Free or Die Hard may be preposterous, but it's an efficient, action-packed summer popcorn flick with thrilling stunts and a commanding performance by Bruce Willis. Fans of the previous Die Hard films will not be disappointed.
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An old-fashioned cop emerges to foil a high-tech attack on the country's computer infrastructure as Bruce Willis brings back one of the biggest action franchises in screen history. It's been over a decade since audiences last saw New York cop John McClane (Willis), but now, as the world's greatest criminal mastermind (Timothy Olyphant) attempts to cripple the entire country with an innovative act of technological terrorism, only one cop can insure that the integrity of the system stays intact.
Jun 27, 2007 Wide
Nov 20, 2007
$134.5M
20th Century Fox
All Critics (201) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (171) | Rotten (37) | DVD (27)
The bad guys' omnipotence at nearly every turn dilutes the film's suspense.
An enjoyable pop projection of post-9/11 anxiety. That said, it also makes you nostalgic for the days when irresponsible action movies didn't have to deal with it.
What's the fourth "Die Hard" called? I keep forgetting. "Die Hard: With a Pension"? "Die Hardened Arteries"? "Die Laughing"?
Movie characters like McClane are the Paul Bunyans and John Henrys and Pecos Bills of our age, the stuff of tall tales spun with the technology of an age whose campfires are found in multiplexes with stadium seating.
Willis should not be the victim of facile stereotyping. He brings more heart and humor to apocalyptic pulp fiction than any other actor I can think of offhand.
Terrific entertainment, and startlingly shrewd in the bargain, a combination of minimalist performances -- interestingly minimalist -- and maximalist stunts that make you laugh, as you gape, at their thunderous extravagance.
Live Free or Die Hard needs a sense of joy, a sense that despite the harrowing nature of the situation, there is something entertaining - even to the participants - about the absurdity of the situation ... it doesn't have that.
Fred Flinstone in the land of the Jetsons
Pulled off with just the right spatial élan
The Die Hard series was about as animated as Rocky's face until director Len Wiseman restored it to its kinetic essence...
Live Free or Die Hard is an over-the-top, fun rampage.
Live Free or Die Hard is as close as we are going to get to reliving the good old action films of the '80s.
First non-R Die Hard still a big blow-out.
I was actually nervous with all the gunfire and near misses. But then it kept happening over and over again. So instead of being involved, I studied the action sequences.
As more and more movies rely on massive CGI enhancement and Hong Kong choreographed wire-rigged fights, Die Hard revels in good, old-fashioned fist fights and real, immaculately executed stunts.
Its hyperactive 80's chic action crap and I had a blast just the same...
A solid action film.
Erases the 3rd and def a return to the good old days of action movies.
May 9, 2008Super Reviewer
I didn't really like this simply down to the fact that it had been modernised. Yeah it was good but it's not what the series was about.
June 30, 2007Super Reviewer
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