Live Free or Die Hard (2007)

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

November 17, 2011 Full Review

Ben Walters

Time Out

Top Critic

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.

October 18, 2008 Full Review

Bob Mondello

NPR.org

Top Critic

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

January 4, 2008 Full Review | Comments (3)

Andrea Gronvall

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

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

Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

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 | Comments (6)

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

Jonathan F. Richards

Film.com

Top Critic

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

February 12, 2013 Full Review

Jeffrey Lyles

Lyles' Movie Files

Die Hard 4.0 is a solid actioner and not the franchise embarrassment that many feared it would be. However, it's also silly and preposterous, and rarely feels like a Die Hard movie.

February 7, 2013 Full Review

Stephen Carty

Flix Capacitor

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.

November 3, 2012 Full Review

Ali Gray

TheShiznit.co.uk

Brainless? Sure. Entertaining? Yup.

August 14, 2012 Full Review

Hank Sartin

Time Out Chicago

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

June 18, 2012 Full Review

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.

March 29, 2011 Full Review | Comments (3)

Joshua Starnes

ComingSoon.net

Fred Flinstone in the land of the Jetsons

August 17, 2010 Full Review | Comments (5)

Jay Antani

Cinema Writer

Pulled off with just the right spatial élan

August 27, 2009 Full Review

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

Peter Keough

Boston Phoenix

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

February 2, 2009 Full Review

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 | Comments (2)

Adam Tobias

Watertown Daily Times

First non-R Die Hard still a big blowout.

July 16, 2008 Full Review | Comment (1)

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

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

Brandon Fibbs

Colorado Springs Gazette

• 1. Thomas Gabriel: On your tombstone it should read 'At the wrong place at the wrong time'.
  2. John McClane: How about ' Yippie ki yay, motherfucker!'.
  – Submitted by Matthew D (2 months ago)
• 1. Thomas Gabriel: [on the phone] Mai, what the hell's going on?
  2. 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.
  – Submitted by Cody H (5 months ago)
• 1. John McClane: Nice poster.
  2. Warlock: What are you a fan of the Fett?
  3. John McClane: No, I was always more of a Star Wars person.
  – Submitted by Adam D (6 months ago)
• 1. John McClane: Is that your best shot?
  – Submitted by Tino N (10 months ago)
• 1. John McClane: [after hitting Mai Linh with the car] How you doin'?
  – Submitted by Tino N (10 months ago)
• 1. John McClane: Just sit tight, asshole. I got a check for you.
  – Submitted by Gabriel F (12 months ago)

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