Live free or Die Hard, indeed. The best Die Hard picture since the original (though this entry's overt modernization could have something to do with me enjoying it so) and it accomplished it, initially, with a PG-13 rating. With that being said, though, this film should have failed.
A fifty-year-old Bruce Willis stars alongside Justin “I’m a Mac” Long, Len (Hack) Wiseman directs, and the flick's utterly disgraceful PG-13 rating resulted in many angry regulars. Some fans boycotted the theatrical release once the rating was revealed, others don't plan on seeing the picture at all, unrated or not. That's a shame, really, as 2007's most enthralling action film is contained right here in this two-disc package in theatrical and unrated renditions. With a set this satisfying, I personally say to you, Fox, all is forgiven for that Alien vs Predator unrated DVD debacle those two short years ago.
We all know how a Die Hard film works, don’t we? A group of terrorists invade a certain location and stall law enforcement with a few devious tricks in order to draw attention away from their real goal — the robbery that is currently underway. Live Free or Die Hard does not break that tradition. McClane (Willis) finds himself, again, as the cop in the wrong place at the wrong time. This time he reluctantly befriends computer hacker Matt Farrell (Justin Long) to bring down a team of cyber-terrorists, led by Thomas Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant), who are systematically shutting down the United States via a Fire Sale. It is nicknamed such because, as Farrell says, “Everything must go.”
The Die Hard series has become something of an anomaly as of late. The first two entries featured McClane in one general location, alone, whereas the two recent films find him buddying up with a reluctant ally and raising a ruckus almost anywhere they see fit.
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