Because there’s nothing worse than running out of ammunition first.
I loved Die Hard 4.0, definitely more than the previous two, maybe more than the first due to the sheer number of times it’s repeated on TV. It was full of crap but that didn’t matter too much to me. Even the jet part didn’t bother me too much.
The only part that distracted me enough to almost draw me out of the film was the bit in the tunnel with the car flipping over and landing between two other cars, thus just missing our heroes. The jet bit, and the ‘killing’ of the helicopter, was more unbelievable but this just looked completely fake.
Shooting yourself in order to defeat the bad guy? That has to be up there with Indy pulling out his gun and shooting the swordsman.
Just saw it via Netflix, and liked it, pretty much. I laughed when both McClane and his daughter helped bad guys shoot themselves in the foot. Also liked McClane’s relationship with Hacker Lad (although it would’ve been nice to have some Mac in-jokes, as noted above), who held his own with BW. Totally unbelievable, of course, in the amount of punishment that McClane takes and keeps on going. Jeez, the guy must be literally made of iron! Interesting, too, how telecommunications either work or don’t, and the streets are either jammed or clear, depending upon the needs of the plot. I actually liked seeing the F-35 in action, despite the basic over-the-top silliness and implausibility of those scenes.
All in all, a pretty good addition to the Die Hard canon, I’d say. Now do they have to do two more to make it a double trilogy? I can already just imagine Die Hard 6: So Very Tired, in which McClane fights terrorists who try to take over his retirement community in Boca.
Oh, and McClane’s daughter got the best line: “There are five of them now.”
How is that any different from McClain navigating the airconditioning ducts of Nakatomi Plaza or the maintenance tunnels of Dulles like he was the design engineer on the project?
A guy who’s been pulled into and forced to foil three terrorist plots?
Hell, he’s even playing the same character, just hairier. “We gotta talk to the Warlock!”. “Take a left, and then straight on through the chompers. Hollister, do you have the sequence yet?” I can’t believe they didn’t throw in a Galaxy Quest reference in Silent Bob’s basement.
Would that be in a contest to see who could reach the main bad guy first? Or to see how many bad guys they could kill?
I think Jack Bauer can kill faster and in more creative ways. But John McClane has a better sense of humor while passing out the mayhem like Halloween candy.
I let the computer stuff pass without comment, but I did think to myself when the “F-35” was first mentioned:
“Why not use a model that actually exists? Have the writers never head of an
F-15/16/22, etc?”
The Ospry-like performance of the “F-35” was also impressive.
Ah, it exists. Also known as the JSF, and it beat out the competitor X-32 “Monica” by Boeing mostly because of its superior STOLV design… the X-32 destroyed the runway when it did so, as I understand it.
OT, but I’m still stuck on this five clip thing… How often do cops find themselves in 5 clip shootouts? Are they even allowed to fire that many rounds in one encounter?
Lotsa stuff got blown up or wrecked. Lotsa people got shot, some killed. Bruce Willis had most of the good lines, the Apple Kid was okay. It met about 95% of the expectations I had going in. I assume that the technical aspects of many if not most movies lie at the furthest bounds of plausibility.