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Live Free or Die Hard (2007) Rank 4 Reviews
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Film School Rejects (Kevin Carr)
Itâs been a dozen years since John McClane beat up the bad guys in a âDie Hardâ film. Thatâs a long time coming, and when thereâs that much time between sequels, people like me start to worry. First, Bruce Willis has gotten older; will the ...read the complete Live Free or Die Hard movie review at Film School Rejects (Kevin Carr)
Reel.com
"A Timex watch in a digital age," sneers villainous Thomas Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant, Deadwood's sheriff no more) of New York cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) in Live Free or Die Hard, the exhilarating fourth installment in the Die Hard series, the first ...read the complete Live Free or Die Hard movie review at Reel.com
Lee's Movie Info (Craig Younkin)
âLive Free or Die Hardâ is the movie that basically starts the summer for me. Spider-Man, Shrek, and Jack are all favorites but when it comes down to amazing pop-corn-style action, who could beat the incredibly indestructible John McClane when it ...read the complete Live Free or Die Hard movie review at Lee's Movie Info (Craig Younkin)
The Cinema Source (Dan Deevy)
I canât believe Iâm about to say this, but Live Free or Die Hard, which for those of you who have been counting, is the fourth incarnation of rough and tough, balls to the wall New York City Detective John McClane saving the world from evil ...read the complete Live Free or Die Hard movie review at The Cinema Source (Dan Deevy)
RopeofSilicon (Laremy Legel)
Live Free or Die Hard is pretty damn fun. It feels way shorter than its 130 minutes and way harder than its PG-13 rating. Itâs relentlessly entertaining, a big summer action film in a summer thatâs been missing just that. Sure, itâs been twelve ...read the complete Live Free or Die Hard movie review at RopeofSilicon (Laremy Legel)
San Francisco Chronicle
Either "Live Free or Die Hard" will go down as the summer's best action blockbuster, or it's going to be one exceptional summer. ...read the complete Live Free or Die Hard movie review at San Francisco Chronicle
About.com Hollywood Movies (Rebecca Murray)
Live Free or Die Hard is an action/buddy movie that does exactly what it's supposed to do. Audiences don't turn out for Die Hard movies to have their brain cells taxed or to worry over plots and character development. No, the Die Hard movies-and ...read the complete Live Free or Die Hard movie review at About.com Hollywood Movies (Rebecca Murray)
Christian Science Monitor
"Live Free or Die Hard" â the fourth "Die Hard" movie, and the first in a decade â is easily the best in the series since the first one. Although it has its fair share of computer-generated effects, an alarming number of the stunts and explosions ...read the complete Live Free or Die Hard movie review at Christian Science Monitor
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The Arizona Republic
As a film series, Die Hard always has fooled some of the people some of the time.
Though the original film stands on its own as a great action movie, the sequels are content to copy the tried-and-true formula, with uneven results. This doesn't earn ...read the complete Live Free or Die Hard movie review at The Arizona Republic
filmcritic.com (Sean O'Connell)
He's back. The fly in the ointment. The monkey in the wrench. The pain in the⦠well, since Len Wiseman's Live Free or Die Hard is the franchise's first installment saddled with an audience-friendly PG-13 rating, we'll have to dance around that last ...read the complete Live Free or Die Hard movie review at filmcritic.com (Sean O'Connell)
Hollywood Report Card (Ross Anthony)
Sure there are holes, perhaps as many as those made by the bullets narrowly-missing Bruce Willis. Still, Willis works it. Besides making for a charismatic, albeit aging, action hero -- heâs quite a good actor. Though the utterances are nary longer than ...read the complete Live Free or Die Hard movie review at Hollywood Report Card (Ross Anthony)
Box Office Prophets
Sometimes lowered expectations are a good thing. Coming into the summer movie season, Live Free or Die Hard looked like this year's Terminator 3 - the last wheezing gasp of a mostly forgotten franchise. So I'm pleasantly surprised to say that Die Hard 4 ...read the complete Live Free or Die Hard movie review at Box Office Prophets
Okay, I know the question you have on your mind. Is there any chance that, after all of these years, Bruce Willis might really have another DIE HARD in him? After all, it's been twelve long years since Willis's very physical Detective John McClane came ...read the complete Live Free or Die Hard movie review at
Hollywood Snitch (Rilio Mastrantonio)
Live Free or Die Hard wastes no time delivering heart-pounding action and never stops while John McClane, played by Bruce Willis, carries out justice on the bad guys and girls. Writer Mike Bomback carries on the tradition of amazing dialogue between ...read the complete Live Free or Die Hard movie review at Hollywood Snitch (Rilio Mastrantonio)
Film Freak Central
I remember the way I felt as a lad of fifteen when I saw John McTiernan's Die Hard, that tingly excitement of not being able to figure out how we were going to get out of this fine mess. The bad guys were smarter ...read the complete Live Free or Die Hard movie review at Film Freak Central
Beyond Hollywood
Len Wiseman is becoming the next Michael Bay, and considering the kind of career Bay has had, and will continue to have for a long time, Wiseman should be smiling right now. How familiar are the two menâs styles? If you didnât know that Wiseman had ...read the complete Live Free or Die Hard movie review at Beyond Hollywood
Cineclub-Filmkritik
Jahre sind vergangen, seitdem sich John McClane (Bruce Willis) von seiner Frau getrennt hat. Inzwischen hat auch seine Tochter Lucy Gennero (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) den ehemaligen Familiennamen ihrer Mutter angenommen und spricht nicht mehr mit John. ...read the complete Live Free or Die Hard movie review at Cineclub-Filmkritik
Exclaim!
Heâs âa Timex watch in a digital ageâ but John McClane doesnât let a thing like technological advancement get in the way of stopping terrorists. The hardnosed NYPD cop who always seems to be the wrong (right?) guy in the wrong place at the wrong t ...read the complete Live Free or Die Hard movie review at Exclaim!
The Hollywood Reporter
The "analog" world strikes back in "Live Free or Die Hard." In his return to the signature character he originated in 1988's "Die Hard" and continued in two '90s sequels, Bruce Willis and his everyman hero, John McClane, use bare-knuckles brawn and brain ...read the complete Live Free or Die Hard movie review at The Hollywood Reporter
Blackfilm.com
Itâs hard to believe that itâs been a dozen years since Die Hard 3, but nobody can complaining about the wait when a sequelâs as scintillating as this. Bruce Willis is back and larger than life as NYPD Detective John McClane, an anachronistic, ...read the complete Live Free or Die Hard movie review at Blackfilm.com
Film Blather (Eugene Novikov)
The worry was that the twenty-first century had long stolen John McClane's thunder. How could an old-fashioned, wisecracking good cop compete in a zeitgeist dominated by Jack Bauer and a team of genetically-altered superheroes? Live Free or Die Hard, ...read the complete Live Free or Die Hard movie review at Film Blather (Eugene Novikov)
Box Office Mojo (Scott Holleran)
Surprisingly clever, humorous and thrilling, if preposterously excessive, the fourth entry in the popular Die Hard series, Live Free or Die Hard, isn't as terrible as it might have been. For an hour, it's relatively strong for this kind of movie. ...read the complete Live Free or Die Hard movie review at Box Office Mojo (Scott Holleran)
ShowBIZ Data
Die Hard fans who have been waiting 12 years to see the return of Bruce Willis as New York cop John McClane are likely to be relieved to hear that they'll get what they expect from Live Free or Die Hard. The movie, writes Ann Hornaday in the Washington ...read the complete Live Free or Die Hard movie review at ShowBIZ Data
Okay, I know the question you have on your mind. Is there any chance that,
after all of these years, Bruce Willis might really have another DIE HARD in
him? After all, it's been twelve long years since Willis's very physical
Detective John McClane ...read the complete Live Free or Die Hard movie review at
Sun Newspapers of Cleveland
It's interesting to note how the action landscape keeps growing in each Die Hard film. The first one was confined to a high rise, the second a major airport, the third a city. ...read the complete Live Free or Die Hard movie review at Sun Newspapers of Cleveland
ReelTalk (Geoff Roberts)
Filmmaker Len Wiseman, hand-picked by star Bruce Willis because of his impressive work in Underworld: Evolution, takes over the directorial reins of Live Free or Die Hard, the fourth installment in the Die Hard series -- previously directed by John ...read the complete Live Free or Die Hard movie review at ReelTalk (Geoff Roberts)
Film School Rejects (Chris Beaumont)
Awful title aside (I prefer the working title of Die Hard 4.0), this fourth installment of the McClane saga actually delivers some hard hitting action. You can count me as one of those that was worried about a Die Hard movie saddled with a PG-13 rating, ...read the complete Live Free or Die Hard movie review at Film School Rejects (Chris Beaumont)
Entertainment Insiders (Rusty White)
âLive Free or Die Hardâ is a slam-bang action thriller that will leave you gasping for breath. Bruce Willis proves that older is badder in this perfect summer thrillfest. A creepy Timothy Olyphant provides the best âDie Hardâ villain since Alan ...read the complete Live Free or Die Hard movie review at Entertainment Insiders (Rusty White)
Film School Rejects (John Cairns)
Live Free or Die Hard had a big challenge. How do you convince people that yet another Die Hard movie with Bruce Willis in it is worth seeing? How do you make a series so closely identified with the action-packed Eighties and Nineties relevant to a ...read the complete Live Free or Die Hard movie review at Film School Rejects (John Cairns)
Christian Spotlight on the Movies
The man who is always at the wrong place at the wrong time is back. Bruce Willis returns as Detective John McClane in the fourth installment of the highly successful ...read the complete Live Free or Die Hard movie review at Christian Spotlight on the Movies
Reeling Reviews (Robin and Laura Clifford)
Summer 2007 so far has been one disappointing tent pole sequel after another, but suddenly one comes out of mothballs and really delivers. "Live Free or Die Hard" isn't a great, classic actioner like the first of the series, but it doesn't take itself ...read the complete Live Free or Die Hard movie review at Reeling Reviews (Robin and Laura Clifford)
Montreal Film Journal (Kevin N. Laforest)
With this fourth Die Hard coming out these days and new adventures of Rambo and Indiana Jones on their way as well, it's almost as if the ten year old me was in charge of Hollywood! If it weren't for Schwarzenegger being in office, all my childhood ...read the complete Live Free or Die Hard movie review at Montreal Film Journal (Kevin N. Laforest)
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