Short Movie Review: Die Hard 4
Live Free or Die Hard is not nearly as good an action movie as the original but it is still a great deal of fun. It has several great action sequences, a few great lines of dialogue, and a relatively thin plot with a lot of holes. I think most of the entertainment value comes from the technology element in the story, in which an renegade ex-NSA hacker (played by the menacing Timothy Olyphant) is trying to take down the government and the internet to teach them a lesson. There are also ninja hackers and a villain skilled in parkour, which is apparently a requirement in post-Casino Royale action movies.
In short this Penny Arcade comic tells you most of what you need to know about the movie. Basically Die Hard it has a lot of the technological ridiculousness that made Hackers funny, plus a lot of explosions and gun fights. By Tony reasoning that makes this movie worth about 3.5 Hackers (converting this to a unit of measure that is useful to you is left as an exercise for the reader.)
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