Die Hard 4.0 (2007)
(Live Free or Die Hard)
Country: US/GB
Technical: col/scope 130m
Director: Len Wiseman
Cast: Bruce Willis, Tim Olyphant, Matthew Farrell, Maggie Q
Synopsis:
An aggrieved former employee of the Pentagon initiates a wholesale attack on the computer systems of public services and utilities, known as a 'firesale'. He does so by recruiting the acumen of hackers across the US to come up with the necessary algorithms. John McClane is detailed to bring in one of them for questioning by the FBI.
Review:
The passage of years has been salutary, both in allowing the heart to grow fonder and, in plot terms, by permitting the introduction of the daughter of the now-defunct McClane/Gennero partnership. While this latter element makes for some fairly hackneyed mechanics, the concept is both novel and timely enough, and the ante sufficiently well upped in action terms, for this addition to the series to be worth the time spent to view it, if not to make it. Certainly it sets a new standard in post-Matrix resilience on the part of Hollywood's action hero.
(Live Free or Die Hard)
Country: US/GB
Technical: col/scope 130m
Director: Len Wiseman
Cast: Bruce Willis, Tim Olyphant, Matthew Farrell, Maggie Q
Synopsis:
An aggrieved former employee of the Pentagon initiates a wholesale attack on the computer systems of public services and utilities, known as a 'firesale'. He does so by recruiting the acumen of hackers across the US to come up with the necessary algorithms. John McClane is detailed to bring in one of them for questioning by the FBI.
Review:
The passage of years has been salutary, both in allowing the heart to grow fonder and, in plot terms, by permitting the introduction of the daughter of the now-defunct McClane/Gennero partnership. While this latter element makes for some fairly hackneyed mechanics, the concept is both novel and timely enough, and the ante sufficiently well upped in action terms, for this addition to the series to be worth the time spent to view it, if not to make it. Certainly it sets a new standard in post-Matrix resilience on the part of Hollywood's action hero.
(Live Free or Die Hard)
Country: US/GB
Technical: col/scope 130m
Director: Len Wiseman
Cast: Bruce Willis, Tim Olyphant, Matthew Farrell, Maggie Q
Synopsis:
An aggrieved former employee of the Pentagon initiates a wholesale attack on the computer systems of public services and utilities, known as a 'firesale'. He does so by recruiting the acumen of hackers across the US to come up with the necessary algorithms. John McClane is detailed to bring in one of them for questioning by the FBI.
Review:
The passage of years has been salutary, both in allowing the heart to grow fonder and, in plot terms, by permitting the introduction of the daughter of the now-defunct McClane/Gennero partnership. While this latter element makes for some fairly hackneyed mechanics, the concept is both novel and timely enough, and the ante sufficiently well upped in action terms, for this addition to the series to be worth the time spent to view it, if not to make it. Certainly it sets a new standard in post-Matrix resilience on the part of Hollywood's action hero.