
When someone hacks into the computers at the FBI's Cyber Crime Division; the Director decides to round up all the hackers who could have done this. When he's told that because it's the 4th of July most of their agents are not around so they might have trouble getting people to get the hackers. So he instructs them to get local PD'S to take care of it. And one of the cops they ask is John McClane who is tasked with bringing a hacker named Farrell to the FBI. But as soon as he ... (Full plot summary below)
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When someone hacks into the computers at the FBI's Cyber Crime Division; the Director decides to round up all the hackers who could have done this. When he's told that because it's the 4th of July most of their agents are not around so they might have trouble getting people to get the hackers. So he instructs them to get local PD'S to take care of it. And one of the cops they ask is John McClane who is tasked with bringing a hacker named Farrell to the FBI. But as soon as he gets there someone starts shooting at them. McClane manages to get them out but they're still being pursued. And it's just when McClane arrives in Washington that the whole system breaks down and chaos ensues.
Leave your thoughts about Live Free or Die Hard.
| musicOMH.comAnton BitelMarrying punishing action set-pieces to an unnerving disaster movie scenario, it grips the viewer with vice-like intensity, while never forgetting to revel in its own amiable absurdity. |
| Palo Alto WeeklyTyler HanleyBruce Willis is back in action to remind moviegoers that spandex-clad superheroes and swashbuckling pirates are no more heroic than a hardened cop. |
| Sydney Morning HeraldPaul ByrnesOne of the surprises of the fourth instalment, apart from how good it is (who expected that?) is that the threat is internal. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleEither Live Free or Die Hard will go down as the summer's best action blockbuster, or it's going to be one exceptional summer. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsKarina MontgomeryAt last! A real summer movie, the first real satisfying action blockbuster since 28 Weeks Later. (That was two months ago, for anyone keeping score.) It recaptures the gruff wit of the first, classic installment, while expanding upon the destructive insa |
| Greenwich Village GazetteEric LurioPure escapist fiction and has no relation to anything, which if you think about it, and you shouldn't, is perfectly fine. |
| Cinema CrazedFelix Vasquez Jr.Its hyperactive 80's chic action crap and I had a blast just the same... |
| Journal News (Westchester, NY)Forrest HartmanThe type of ridiculously excessive adventure that summer moviegoing should be about. |
| Film Freak CentralWalter ChawHe's commenting on his own indestructibility, for sure, but he's commenting, too, on the burden of the convention that he be indestructible. |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerEasily the best in the series since the first one. |