LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD (2007)

Director: Len Wiseman

If you’ve never seen a DIE HARD-film, then you might like this as a pure entertainment flick for a rainy Sunday. But if you’re a fan of McLane, then you’ll feel sad afterward.

Bad actors, embarrassing computer-hacking-stuff, extremely boring sets & props and a stupid script makes this the worst of the DIE HARD films.

I’m actually a big fan of the second DIE HARD movie, but I of course love the first one too. Even the third one I think is good entertainment! But this… no… Here we have a tired Bruce Willis going around New York without a clue on what is going on. In all the other films he was the force that unraveled the whole mystery of the bad guys – but here McLane is reduced to a fat bouncer with a gun.

McLane’s character is out of place and silly. The one-liners are tedious and the plot is ridiculous. Whoever wrote the script should have his Final Draft program taken away from him.

The action is good though. Especially Maggie Q is cool and has one (!) good scene. She is taken away too soon though and too early. Her death is spectacular, and so is the end scenes with the fighter plane.

Everything else is exactly the same things as we’ve seen in a thousand other movies before. Nothing new here! Actually, it feels like they just took a bounce of films and edited in McLane a little bit here and there… And the screenplay can *not* been an original DIE HARD-script. This has to have been a script that was too bad for a sole release, so they added McLane to it to make it a bit more “interesting”. Too bad it doesn’t work. A bad script is always a bad script.

Instead of McLane’s wife we have his daughter here. That doesn’t work at all and feels totally useless. She just adds more time to a movie that already goes too slow.

As an action film it is about ten years too late. As a DIE HARD film, it should’ve never been made.

Boring, tired and unnecessary.

Score: 4