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Live Free or Die Hard (2007)

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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

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Movie Info

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.

PG-13, 2 hr. 9 min.

Mystery & Suspense, Action & Adventure

Directed By: Len Wiseman

In Theaters: Jun 27, 2007 Wide

On DVD: Nov 20, 2007

Box Office:$134.5M

20th Century Fox

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

January 4, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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Andrea Gronvall

Chicago Reader

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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.

November 28, 2007 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

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

July 31, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Post

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Kyle Smith

New York Post

Top Critic

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.

July 15, 2007 Full Review Source: Film.com

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Jonathan F. Richards

Film.com

Top Critic

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.

July 11, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Observer

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Andrew Sarris

New York Observer

Top Critic

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.

June 28, 2007 Full Review Source: Wall Street Journal

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Joe Morgenstern

Wall Street Journal

Top Critic

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.

March 29, 2011 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net

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Joshua Starnes

ComingSoon.net

Fred Flinstone in the land of the Jetsons

August 17, 2010 Full Review Source: Cinema Writer

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Jay Antani

Cinema Writer

Pulled off with just the right spatial �lan

August 27, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion

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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...

April 23, 2009 Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix

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Peter Keough

Boston Phoenix

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

February 2, 2009 Full Review Source: Fayetteville Free Weekly

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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.

July 23, 2008 Full Review Source: Watertown Daily Times

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Adam Tobias

Watertown Daily Times

First non-R Die Hard still a big blow-out.

July 16, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Cynthia Fuchs

Common Sense Media

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.

March 3, 2008 Full Review Source: The Scorecard Review

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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.

February 28, 2008 Full Review Source: Colorado Springs Gazette

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Brandon Fibbs

Colorado Springs Gazette

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

January 27, 2008 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed

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Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

A solid action film.

November 25, 2007 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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James Plath

Movie Metropolis

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

May 9, 2008

John Manard

Super 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, 2007

Sophie Burgess

Super Reviewer

Live Free or Die Hard Quotes

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1. Lucy McClane: So did he say anything about me?
2. John McClane: Jesus! Lucy!
3. Lucy McClane: What? I'm sorry. I'm just asking.
4. John McClane: I have enough pain already.
– Submitted by Jordan L (2 months ago)
1. John McClane: Yippie ki yay mother. [shoots himself in the shoulder]
– Submitted by Jason H (2 months ago)
1. Matt Farrell: You just killed a helicopter with a car!
2. John McClane: I was out of bullets.
– Submitted by Danny S (4 months ago)
1. John McClane: I'm gettin' too old to jump out of cars.
– Submitted by rob g (10 months ago)
1. John McClane: Damn hamster!
– Submitted by rob g (10 months ago)

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