Live Free or Die Hard

If you have not seen this movie, get over to to your theater. This is not a movie you want to miss.

Let’s start at the beginning. A guy hacks a computer. Maybe ten minutes later, stuff starts blowing up. You’ve got everything from C4-packed computers (not kidding), to an entire factory, all mixing and matching shrapnel. There’s more to the movie than explosions, of course. I’m not saying seeing Bruce Willis smash a totalled police cruiser into a helicopter while getting shot at wasn’t cool, it’s just that there was way more to the movie than that.

There was a decent plot (You hear that, Pirates of the Caribbean?), which, of course, required half the props blown to tiny, indistinguishable pieces. The humor was also decent, and well-placed, so even the cheesy jokes flowed smoothly. If nothing else, stay to make sure Bruce talks to the villain a few times over a radio. Funny stuff. It was relatively plausible, too.

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First off, sorry for the sketchiness of details, I watched it about a week ago. On to the spoiler…

So a cop (Bruce) is sent to pick up one (Jason Long) of maybe a couple hundred hackers on a “black hat list” who might have hacked the DoD (Might have been something else, but whatever), but one by one, they’re found inside of blown-up wreckages (yes, you do get to see the computers blown up). Along the trip, a group of well-armed foreign people speaking who-knows-what-ian attempts to kill them. Several times. But they make it there anyway, and are sent to some other important place. Along the way, their guide is shot, the traffic system, the stock market, and most of DC go offline. So, they have to make sure it doesn’t happen to the East Coast by heading over to this one place that provides all the power to it. There, they are attacked again (predictably, isn’t it), and kill the main villain’s girlfriend (“Asian chick? Likes to kick people in the head?”). Bruce’s daughter is kidnapped, as is the hacker played by Jason, who is almost forced to unlock the US money market for Joe Villain. But then Bruce comes and blows some stuff up, shoots himself in the shoulder (knowing that a point-blank range, it will kill his captor), and overall saves the day.
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What are you doing here, still?! Go watch this movie!

4.5 out of 5
(What? I don’t have half a star!)

Side note: Yeah, I will eventually get around to watching Transformers. I hope it’s soon. My brother said it was good.