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List Price: $26.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 11378
Released: November 20, 2007 |
| Our Price: $8.00 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
"The best of the best is back and better than ever" (WNYW-TV) in the latest installment of the pulse-pounding, thrill-a-minute Die Hard action films. New York City detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) delivers old-school justice to a new breed of terrorists when a massive computer attack on the U.S. infrastructure threatens to shut down the entire country over Independence Day weekend.
Description of Live Free or Die Hard - Unrated (Two-Disc Special Edition):
Twelve years after Die Hard with a Vengeance, the third and previous film in the Die Hard franchise, Live Free or Die Hard finds John McClane (Bruce Willis) a few years older, not any happier, and just as kick-ass as ever. Right after he has a fight with his college-age daughter (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), a call comes in to pick up a hacker (Justin Long, a.k.a. the "Apple guy") who might help the FBI learn something about a brief security blip in their systems. Now any Die Hard fan knows that this is when the assassins with foreign accents and high-powered weaponry show up, telling McClane that once again he's stumbled into an assignment that's anything but routine. Once that wreckage has cleared, it is revealed that the hacker is only one of many hackers who are being targeted for extermination after they helped set up a "fire sale," a three-pronged cyberattack designed to bring down the entire country by crippling its transportation, finances, and utilities. That plan is now being put into action by a mysterious team (Timothy Olyphant, Deadwood, and Maggie Q, Mission: Impossible 3) that seems to be operating under the government's noses.
Live Free or Die Hard uses some of the cat-and-mouse elements of Die Hard with a Vengeance along with some of the pick-'em-off-one-by-one elements of the now-classic original movie. And it's the most consistently enjoyable installment of the franchise since the original, with eye-popping stunts (directed by Len Wiseman of the Underworld franchise), good humor, and Willis's ability to toss off a quip while barely alive. There was some controversy over the film's PG-13 rating--there might be less blood than usual, and McClane's famous tag line is somewhat obscured--but there's still has plenty of action and a high body count. Yippee-ki-ay! --David Horiuchi
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Live Free or Die Hard 
2009-12-30 - Willis is in his element. Olyphant is perfectly ice cold. Some great action sequences, including a fight to the death in an elevator shaft. This movie takes a classic climactic situation and resolves it in the coolest, most unexpected and most low-tech way imaginable, and in a way that reinforces everything you've ever liked about the "Die Hard" movies and McClane as a character. It's just terrific.
Pointless rubbish 
2009-12-27 - What is the point of this comic book style caper with ludicrious amounts of violence where the hero should have been killed 10 times over through the violence he has suffered. The dialogue is minimalistic and the story is a rehash of all the other 3 movies with no real characther interplay - everybody is just acting like moronic automotons programmed to act in a certain way. Pointless rubbish!
AMAZON = LAME 
2009-12-18 - I love this movie, however days after I purchased it, Amazon dropped the price by $8. I asked for a credit for the difference. They refused and insisted I must ship the original one back to them so that they could credit my account and then bill me the new price and ship it back to me. The logic behind that policy escapes me. At least the movie doesnt appear used like most of their products are.
Big Die Hard fan will surely love this..
2009-12-14 - I have seen this movie on the big screen but opted to buy this Bluray to experience it on my living room. It is a very good movie. I hope there is still more to come of this type.
For Die Hard fans who REALLY miss the series only!
2009-11-29 - I had high hopes for this sequel based on the good reviews on Amazon. This movie disappoints. It starts out a bit slowly & the filming is that new dark, cold effect that seems to be the new way of trying to create suspense or what, I really don't know. The movie doesn't really pick up in true Die Hard fashion until later in the movie. And it's hard to take the villain vs. Mclaine seriously. The villain is a behind the scenes white collar "I don't want to break a nail" kind of guy. Yes, Bruce Willis still makes a great Mclaine and he's still tough as nails, but some of the action scenes were just too over the top to be remotely believable even to the most "die hard" Die Hard fans. ***Spoiler Alert***
I watched the unrated version. I don't know how it differs from the theater version. The following were just too much and terribly done (because the just don't work): Mclaine is driving the police car in the tunnel (the traffic jam/crash happened to leave a clear path for him to drive through) and the helicopter is shooting the hood from above, outside. The car is a half mile inside, how do you shoot straight down & shoot the car????? Then the helicopter crashes & explodes & one of the terrorists survives (not likely) completely fine. No soot smudges from the wreckage, no injuries. As clean as when he walked out of his dressing trailer that morning. The tractor trailer fighter plane scene was terrible. The truck was smashed in the front in one scene then the next it wasn't. Keep your editing in order boys. And a fighter jet is shooting missiles at close range & can't hit the truck?? And it can maneuver under the bridge?? Then when the truck is finally hit, it's still drivable???
*****
This movie just doesn't live up to the others, but if you have a cold beer & want to just veg out & enjoy Bruce Willis kicking a**, rent it.
