Movie Review - Live Free or Die Hard (aka Die Hard 4)

After the huge array of really poor sequels I've seen recently (POTC 3, Oceans 13, Shrek 3) there is finally a sequel I actually enjoyed watching. Ignore the many howling goofs that there are (like McClain hitting the guy with his car, him hitting a wall at 40+ mph with his back and getting up and walking in seconds). This is good. The action doesn't go overboard for no reason (unlike Bad Boys 2) and there is a bit of a plot but not much. The story of the Cyber Terrorists could have been explained a little bit more in my view but thats just me.

Bruce Willis is just a little bit too long in the tooth to be taken seriously as an action hero of this level and the blatant steals from Terminator 2 and True Lies were a tad annoying that they couldn't think of anything new themselves. The film is maybe about 20 minutes too long and a few scenes seemed like they were added on as after thoughts to get the film to its 2 hour running time but generally the film is very watchable. I give it a thumbs up.