For my Fourth of July, I worked. Well, not the whole day. I spent 2 hours and $8 to go be entertained by the new Bruce Willis movie Live Free or Die Hard with my roommates Matt Ronge and Dax Norman.And I was certainly entertained. Actually, I quite liked the movie. The plot followed a computer heist that cripples the country, and leaves Bruce Willis and computer hacker Justin Long trying to save the world. The story was largely unbelievable, but it took place in the future so that is some what OK. Die Hard is all about Bruce Willis doing ridiculous stunts, shooting a machine gun, and yelling “Yippee Ki Yay.” Die Hard or Live Free certainly met all of those, and took the previous Die Hard series to the next level. In fact I would place it as the best of the Die Hards.I also enjoyed the movie because of the fact that I really like Justin Long. Yeah, it probably has to do a lot with his success in the Apple “I’m a Mac” commercials.Die Hard is a fast moving, action-packed, and extremely entertaining ode to the Die Hard series, computer nerds, machine guns, and good defeating evil once again.Yippee Ki Yay.Kevin’s movie rating:
I would watch it again
Movie Rating Key:
- Best movie I have ever seen
- Absolutely incredible
- Pretty darn good
- I would watch it again
- Good, but only time I am seeing it
- Disappointing
- Not very good
- Horrendous
- Shouldn’t have been made
I must say I too enjoyed Live Free or Die Hard. It kept moving enough that you couldn’t quite stop and think, “that wouldn’t happen…” And you didn’t want to either. Bruce Willis returns to his classic role and Justin Long is entertaining and keeps it from being an older-actor-trying-to-revive-his-career” sort of film. The lines may be cheesy but ones that make you smile, not grimace.
I would like to draw your attention to three final thoughts.
1- Kevin reverses the title to Die Hard or Live Free at the end of paragraph two.
2- The rating scale appears to make quite a jump from 2 to 1 in that I find a lot of difference between a movie that is pretty good and the best I have ever seen. I make a request for some middle ground- perhaps integrating decimals.
3- Transformers. Check it out