Live Free of Die Hard

Detektif NYPD John McClane tinggal di Brooklyn, dan dia sekarang bercerai dari Holly Gennero, yang tinggal di San Francisco. John telah menghadapi beberapa teroris brutal di karirnya, tapi sekarang, dia akan menghadapi apa yang mungkin menjadi musuh yang paling berbahaya belum. Yohanes, yang kadang-kadang melakukan pekerjaan untuk Amerika Serikat Departemen Keamanan Dalam Negeri, menerima panggilan untuk membawa seorang hacker bernama Matt Farrell, karena ada ... telah terjadi pelanggaran dalam sebuah sistem komputer FBI. Farrell adalah salah satu dari banyak hacker yang diduga dalam serangan itu, dan semua hacker dikenal harus dipertanyakan. Tapi setelah John sampai ke apartemen Matt, sekelompok pria muncul dan mencoba untuk membunuh John dan Matt, yang nyaris melarikan diri dengan kehidupan mereka. Ternyata, kelompok teroris yang dipimpin oleh Thomas Gabriel secara sistematis mematikan infrastruktur komputer Amerika Serikat. Mereka crash pasar saham, ekonomi Amerika melumpuhkan's. Ternyata Matt tahu cukup tentang hacking untuk tahu persis bagaimana Gabriel menutup Amerika Serikat. Gabriel, mantan dipermalukan Departemen Pertahanan karyawan, berencana untuk membawa negara ke lutut, tetapi ia tidak mengandalkan John dan Matt mencari tahu apa yang terjadi. Gabriel ingin John dan Matt keluar dari jalan, dan untuk John, situasi menjadi pribadi ketika Gabriel marah menculik putri John Lucy, yang merupakan mahasiswa di Rutgers University di New Jersey. Gabriel mungkin berpikir bahwa ia sekarang telah di atas angin pada John, tetapi dia tidak tahu sejauh mana John bersedia untuk pergi untuk menyelamatkan Lucy.


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Shia LaBeouf recently defended Indiana Jones 4, claiming that the ridiculous parts weren’t any more fantastical than the stuff that happens in Indys 1-3, only consumers now are more jaded than in the 80s. To that, I would reply “Staff of Ra shining light on Ark’s location = Awesome; CGI’d monkeys swinging in unison = F*ck you people,” but that argument is neither here nor there.
I decided to put this “jaded consumer” theory to the test last night by finally watching Live Free Or Die Hard on DVR. I, like any sane human, loved Die Hards 1-3, and even though I initially saw most of them when I was still at the age when I loved everything (we came out of the theater cheering after Independence Day), I’ve seen most of them again in the past year, and they still more than hold up.
So what to expect from a PG-13 Die Hard installment twenty years after the original (and greatest action movie of all time, save perhaps Terminator 2)?
Answer: A pretty… good… movie, actually.
On paper, everything about this film is destined for failure. The plot revolves around a villain attempting to control the eastern seaboard by hacking into computers, which right off the bat sets the film up for actors saying words like “download” and “mainframe” really awkwardly, as well as the potential for the film to be dated before it even comes out (see: Johnny Mnemonic).
Bruce Willis, who is 52 in this film, looks to be about 90. Villain Timothy Olyphant, who is 39 in this film, looks to be about 19 (sans the Deadwood ‘stache). And, for good measure, the film co-stars Justin Long as an apparent “wacky young guy sidekick who Bruce Willis can’t relate to!!!” One of the earliest scenes even features Willis and Long arguing about CCR, because there be a gap between their generashuns, followed by Long going off on a rant about how everything in the news is manipulated by corporations in a weird “attempting conspiracy theorist” voice reminiscent of a crappy Quentin Tarantino impression.
So how was this movie not terrible? Your guess is as good as mine.
For one, the CCR / news conspiracy scene was a one-time anomaly, and Long’s character turned surprisingly reasonable and unannoying for the rest of the movie.
Secondly, Olyphant played a credible omnipotent hacker villain, and the script was clearly checked over by people young enough to weed out ridiculous vaguely tech-sounding terminology. E.G., there were no parts where Olyphant screamed “Once I have firewalled the server, I can destroy the mainframe with a simple Trojan Horse!”
Third, while many of the stunts were on a near-Transporter 2 level of ridiculous — Willis drives through a fire hydrant and the upward explosion of water knocks a dude out of the helicopter trailing him — but that’s just the cost of doing business in Roman Numeral IV. You can’t make the movie less ridiculous than the previous installments, and as great as the first Die Hard is, they obviously weren’t going to take a $150 million budget and have Bruce Willis fight eight thieves in an office building in which the properties of physics actually hold true.
Overall, while the film isn’t quite Casino Royale or Bourne Ultimatum, it’s also not The Marine or Rise of the Silver Surfer either. It’s a completely straightforward, enjoyable action flick that doesn’t allow its PG-13 rating to dissuade its body count, doesn’t appear to have been watered down dialogue-wise to help the movie succeed at the Malaysian box office, and caused me to yell at the screen waaaaay less than Indiana Jones 4 (and I was watching this one at home.)
So there you have it, LaBeouf. Fourth installment, different customer, and I still enjoyed it. And I write for the internet — I’m jaded as f*ck.