Die Hard 4.0 (DVD)

Oh how I laugh! I have today had the good fortune to read some reviews that stated Die Hard 4.0 (or Live Free Die Hard as it's called in the other half of the world) is incredibly far fetched! HELLO!!!! Lets analyse this a bit; John McClane having taken on three of the worlds deadliest gangs in the previous three films takes on a forth! The same John McClane that saved all those people in Nagatomi Plaza, the same John McClane that battled mercenaries trying to take over an airport and a selection of planes; and the very same John McClane that stopped a madman blowing up New York! Of course it's far fetched and if you have seen the previous 3 movies then that should be a ...  Read the complete review

With the War on Terror coming to a screeching halt in America it’s only erroneous arrests and propaganda keeping it going to justify their wars in Muslim lands, leaving it to Hollywood to keep Americas fear alive. With crinkly old Harrison Ford talking about another Raiders movie in the Middle East, post 911 has seen the great action hero’s of the eighties and nineties return with patriotic sequels of their great movie franchise to feed the Stars And Stripes macho fight back. Stallone essentially redid Rocky and called it Rocky Balboa, hoping we wouldn’t notice, whilst Arnie became Governor Schwarzenegger of the back of the Terminator 3 box-office. So why should ...  Read the complete review

Die Hard 4.0 (or Live Free or Die Hard) saw Bruce Willis return to the iconic role of detective John Mclane for the first time in seventeen years. I think Die Hard (1988) might be the greatest action film ever made so a new John Mclane adventure certainly piqued my interest despite a lot of negative internet coverage prior to the release of the film. The geeky film sites were not happy with the choice of Underworld director Len Wiseman or the decision to cut the film to obtain a PG-13 certificate. Die Hard was a product of the action-packed and frequently violent eighties. Back then a lot of the blockbusters (Robocop, Total Recall, Predator) were 18 certificates. The ...  Read the complete review

Detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) is a hard-bitten cop with an ex-wife and daughter. Assigned to bring in a young computer hacker, McClane walks into a fire storm at the hackers apartment, eventually fleeing from the scene having dispatched several of the assassins in the process. On the way to the FBI HQ in Washington D.C. and the safe house of Deputy Director Bowman (Cliff Curtis), the duo encounter traffic chaos whilst the US Stock Market is de-railed by the urban terrorist, Thomas Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant). As it becomes clear that Matthew Farrell (Justin Long) is the only surviving hacker of a network that has been unwittingly helping Gabriel with his ...  Read the complete review

When someone hacks into the FBI main database late one evening it sets about a series of events that could bring down the whole of the United States. The FBI director decides to round up all key internet hackers to get to the bottom of it and sends John McClane (Bruce Willis) in to pick up Matthew Farrell (Justin Long). What should have been an easy pick up turns nasty when a team of trained soldiers appear to take Farrell out. From there McClane has to try and find out who is behind this plot and stop them before they bring the whole Country to a standstill. It’s been 12 years since Bruce Willis last donned the vest and became John McClane, so it was a little ...  Read the complete review