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Live Free or Die Hard (2007)

Live Free or Die Hard
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82%
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 206
Fresh: 168
Rotten: 38

Critics Consensus: 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.

78%
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 45
Fresh: 35
Rotten: 10

Critics Consensus: 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.

AUDIENCE SCORE

86%
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Average Rating: 3.9/5
User Ratings: 1,856,805

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On the Fourth of July weekend, an attack on the vulnerable United States infrastructure begins to shut down the entire nation. The mysterious figure behind the scheme has figured out every modern angle... but he never figured on McClane--the old-school "analog" fly in the "digital" ointment. It's the beginning of the holiday, but New York City Detective McClane isn't celebrating. He's had yet another argument with his college-age daughter Lucy, and received a crushingly routine assignment to bring in a young hacker, Matt Farrell, for questioning by the FBI. But for McClane, the ordinary has a habit of exploding into the extraordinary--abruptly hurtling him into the wrong place at the wrong time. With Farrell's help, McClane slowly begins to understand the increasing chaos surrounding him. An attack is underway on the vulnerable United States infrastructure, shutting down the entire nation. The mysterious figure behind the scheme, Thomas Gabriel, stays several moves ahead of McClane as he implements his incredible plans, known to uber-geeks like Farrell as a "fire sale" (as in, everything must go!) … More

Rating:
PG-13 (for intense sequences of violence and action, language and a brief sexual situation)
Genre:
Mystery & Suspense , Action & Adventure
Directed By:
Len Wiseman
Written By:
Mark Bomback
In Theaters:
Jun 27, 2007 Wide
On DVD:
Nov 20, 2007
US Box Office:
$134.5M
Runtime:
2 hr. 8 min.
20th Century Fox - Official Site

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Cast

  • Bruce Willis
    Bruce Willis
    as John McClane
  • Timothy Olyphant
    Timothy Olyphant
    as Thomas Gabriel
  • Justin Long
    Justin Long
    as Matt Farrell
  • Maggie Q
    Maggie Q
    as Mai
  • Cliff Curtis
    Cliff Curtis
    as Bowman
  • eljko Ivanek
    eljko Ivanek
    as Molina
  • Jonathan Sadowski
    Jonathan Sadowski
    as Trey
  • Andrew Friedman
    Andrew Friedman
    as Casper
  • Kevin Smith
    Kevin Smith
    as Warlock
  • Yorgo Constantine
    Yorgo Constantine
    as Russo
  • Cyril Raffaelli
    Cyril Raffaelli
    as Rand
  • Christopher Palermo
    Christopher Palermo
    as Del
  • Mary Elizabeth Winstead
    Mary Elizabeth Winst...
    as Lucy
  • Sung Kang
    Sung Kang
    as Raj
  • Christina Chang
    Christina Chang
    as Taylor
  • Chris Palermo
    Chris Palermo
    as Del
  • Jake McDorman
    Jake McDorman
    as Jim
  • Zeljko Ivanek
    Zeljko Ivanek
    as Molina
  • Rosemary Knower
    Rosemary Knower
    as Mrs. Kaludis
  • Gerald Downey
    Gerald Downey
    as Hoover Agent
  • Allen Maldonado
    Allen Maldonado
    as Goatee
  • Jim Cantafio
    Jim Cantafio
    as Deli Owner
  • Chris Ellis Jr.
    Chris Ellis Jr.
    as Scalvino
  • Regina McKee Redwing
    Regina McKee Redwing
    as Nearby Agent
  • Chris Ellis
    Chris Ellis
    as Scalvino
  • Tony Colitti
    Tony Colitti
    as Chief Hazmat Agent
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    Tim De Zarn
    as Police Sergeant
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    Kurt David Anderson
    as Miller
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    Matt O'Leary
    as Clay
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    Nadine Ellis
    as Teller
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    Ethan Flower
    as Trader
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    Nick Jaine
    as Phone Guy
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    Tim Russ
    as Chuck Summer
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    Joe Gerety
    as Jack Parry
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    Edward James Gage
    as On Duty PP Operator
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    David Walrod
    as Deli Customer
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    Edoardo Costa
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    John Reha
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    Yancey Arias
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    Rick Cramer
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    Vito Pietanza
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    Dennis Depew
    as DC Cop
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    Howard Tyrone Fergus...
    as DC Cop
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    John Lacy
    as EMT
  • Diana Gettinger
    Diana Gettinger
    as FBI Dispatcher
  • Melissa Knowles
    Melissa Knowles
    as Freeway Reporter
  • Jeffrey Wright
    Jeffrey Wright

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Critic Reviews for Live Free or Die Hard

All Critics (206) | Top Critics (45) | Fresh (168) | Rotten (38) | DVD (28)

Len Wiseman handles many of the set-pieces with flair and tension.

Full Review… | November 17, 2011
Ben Walters
Time Out

It's not remotely plausible, but with Willis' McClane leaping onto the tailfins of passing jet fighters and bringing down helicopters by launching police cars at them, there's enough stuff blowing up that action fans won't mind much.

Full Review… | October 18, 2008
Bob Mondello
NPR.org

The bad guys' omnipotence at nearly every turn dilutes the film's suspense.

Full Review… | January 4, 2008
Andrea Gronvall
Chicago Reader

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.

Full Review… | November 28, 2007
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly

What's the fourth "Die Hard" called? I keep forgetting. "Die Hard: With a Pension"? "Die Hardened Arteries"? "Die Laughing"?

Full Review… | July 31, 2007
Kyle Smith
New York Post

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.

Full Review… | July 15, 2007
Jonathan F. Richards
Film.com

It's an over-the-top spectacle of action violence, and I loved it.

Full Review… | April 28, 2014
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures

Provided you don't put too much thought into it and just enjoy the ride, you'll have a blast.

Full Review… | February 12, 2013
Jeffrey Lyles
Lyles' Movie Files

Ultimately, a passable new Die Hard movie is more than anyone of us ever really expected, and that in itself is worth a jolly old Yippee-Ki-Ay.

Full Review… | November 3, 2012
Ali Gray
TheShiznit.co.uk

Brainless? Sure. Entertaining? Yup.

Full Review… | August 14, 2012
Hank Sartin
Time Out Chicago

Though it's mostly entertaining (if overlong), there is a sense that the whole thing has become somewhat rote.

Full Review… | June 18, 2012
Kim Newman
Sight and Sound

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.

Full Review… | March 29, 2011
Joshua Starnes
ComingSoon.net

Fred Flinstone in the land of the Jetsons

Full Review… | August 17, 2010
Jay Antani
Cinema Writer

Pulled off with just the right spatial élan

Full Review… | August 27, 2009
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion

The Die Hard series was about as animated as Rocky's face until director Len Wiseman restored it to its kinetic essence...

Full Review… | April 23, 2009
Peter Keough
Boston Phoenix

Live Free or Die Hard is an over-the-top, fun rampage.

Full Review… | February 2, 2009
Tony Macklin
Fayetteville Free Weekly

Live Free or Die Hard is as close as we are going to get to reliving the good old action films of the '80s.

Full Review… | July 23, 2008
Adam Tobias
Watertown Daily Times

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.

Full Review… | March 3, 2008
Jeff Bayer
The Scorecard Review

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.

Full Review… | February 28, 2008
Brandon Fibbs
Colorado Springs Gazette

Its hyperactive 80's chic action crap and I had a blast just the same...

Full Review… | January 27, 2008
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

It is is about as realistic as a Tom & Jerry cartoon, but then again, this is a Die Hard movie . . .

November 8, 2007
James O'Ehley
SA Movie & DVD Magazine

Yipee-ki-ay your way past the plot flaws and enjoy the ride.

Full Review… | October 22, 2007
Bruce Bennett
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
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Audience Reviews for Live Free or Die Hard

Erases the 3rd and def a return to the good old days of action movies.

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jmanard52
John Manard

Super Reviewer

½

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Directors Cat
Directors Cat

Super Reviewer

This was a nice (enough) return to a great series. There's plenty of action and drama, and over-the-top stunts and sequences, Willis still has the gusto he used to, and the supporting cast does nice work too. It would have been nice had this been "hard-edged" like the previous films, but even though it's not, it's still a decent film.

Like the previous entry, this one is on a larger, more open scale, with McClane having to stop a high tech terrorist attack on the country's (mainly eastern seaboard) computer infrastructure using his old school analog ways. Joining him is a dweeby computer guy who makes for a pretty decent comic foil, though he has nothing on Samuel L. Jackson's Zeus from the previous film.

The film (at least the theatrical cut) suffers from being sanitized and given the PG-13 treatment, but if you're open minded, you can look past this aspect. McClane is also treated like a friggin superhero, basically surviving stuff that no normal man should. This last aspect seems to increase as this series goes on, and, yeah, it's a bit dumb, but if all you want is a cheesy over-the-top action spectacle, then you should be decently happy with this one.

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cosmo313
Chris Weber

Super Reviewer

½

Up until the most recent movie("Good Day to Die Hard") this was the most over the top installment of the movie. McClane(Bruce Willis) is visiting his daughter when he gets a call to pick up a hacker(Justin Long) and take him to Washington D.C. When he gets to the hackers apartment they are attacked, and it turns out the hacker didn't know, but he had been working for a terrorist named Gabriel(Timothy Olyphant) to set off a Fire Sail. Using technology they turn off traffic, all the power, all the communication, shut down financial institutions and attempt to put the U.S. back in the dark ages. But they didn't know they would have to contend with John McClane, an "analog man in a digital world". Now he is our best chance to stop them before it's too late. McClane is pretty much indestructible, and jumps onto F-35 jets here, so yes it's crazy and way over the top, but it's still a "Die Hard" movie, and it's still awesome. Not as good as others in the series, but it's still very entertaining for an action flick that holds up decent. Biggest problem is it's rated PG-13 and he only says "Yippy Ka Yah" without the rest of it;) Still, if you haven't watched it, go back and give it a shot.

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Everett Johnson
Everett Johnson

Super Reviewer

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Live Free or Die Hard Quotes


Thomas Gabriel:
On your tombstone it should read 'At the wrong place at the wrong time'.
John McClane:
How about ' Yippie ki yay, motherfucker!'.
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– Submitted by Matthew D (21 months ago)
Thomas Gabriel:
[on the phone] Mai, what the hell's going on?
John McClane:
Mai? Oh yeah, little Asian chick, likes to kick people? I don't think she's gonna be talking to anyone for a long time. The last time I saw her she was at the bottom of an elevator shaft with a big SUV rammed up her ass.
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– Submitted by Cody H (24 months ago)
John McClane:
Nice poster.
Warlock:
What are you a fan of the Fett?
John McClane:
No, I was always more of a Star Wars person.
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– Submitted by Adam D (2 years ago)
John McClane:
Is that your best shot?
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– Submitted by Tino N (2 years ago)

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