 | "Just Another Day in Paradise" ~John McClane |
Okay, so I admit I'm a sucker for bad boys -- as long as there's a TV screen between us. But while I'm not a big fan of the unbelievable adventure flicks, I don't mind a dose of Bruce Willis-style chaos once in a while. He's the goodest baddest bad boy of my generation.
In this one, Detective John McClane (Willis) is directed to bring in a hacker to FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, because a terrorist hacking may be underway. McClane appears at a college dorm to take Matt Farrell (Justin Long) into custody only to find his 'handlers' are already aware he may be interrogated so they, too, appear at the dorm to kill the kid. The kid, of course, has no idea he's part of a terrorist attack. He thought he was hired to do a cyber security check.
Mayham ensues as McClane single-handedly takes out the operatives sent to kill the kid and then heads out to get the kid to D.C. Of course, the bad guys are in hot pursuit but in inimitable McClane style, he manages to take out a low-flying helicopter by hitting a fire hydrant with his car and letting the gyser take down the 'copter and then launches his unoccupied car out of a tunnel, over a toll booth, and then making a direct hit on the other low-flying helicopter. "Yippi-kay-ay!"
Soon we discover that the disgruntled Thomas Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant), former Homeland Security security director, is staging a "fire sale" -- hacking systems to take out communication, transportation, and utiiities in D.C., and then the eastern seaboard, followed by the central and western zones of the USA. Matt Farrell, along with other innocent young hackers, are unknowingly involved and one by one, each of these hackers is being eliminated. Farrell remains the last and Gabriel and his team are determined to silence him.
Instead, Farrell uses the weapons at his disposal -- computers -- to help win this battle while McClane uses a seemingly endless supply guns and bullets, cars, helicopters, semi-trucks, and pure machismo to do the same. A real team!
Of course, when McClane's daughter Lucy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is held hostage by Gabriel, everything escalates.
Long live the Die Hard franchise!
Favorite quotes:
Farrell: Do we have anything resembling a plan?
McClane: Find Lucy. Kill everybody else.
McClane: Hang on Lucy, I'm coming.
Lucy: Dad, you're crazy!
McClane: What?
Lucy: You shot yourself.
McClane: Seemed like a good idea at the time.
Directed by Len Wiseman.
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, language and a brief sexual situation.
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