Live Free or Die Hard - Unrated (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Len Wiseman
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Actor: Bruce Willis, Cliff Curtis, Justin Long, Maggie Q, Timothy OlyphantDirector: Len Wiseman
Brand: LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD - WIDESCREEN 2-DIS (DVD
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 129 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-20
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Live Free or Die Hard - Unrated (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Movie Review: John McClane - Action Hero for the Ages
Summary: 5 Stars
I remember the Summer of 1988 just like it was yesterday. I remember my first glimpse of Bruce Willis as John McClane just like it was yesterday. I remember seeing Die Hard seven times in the theater, thinking this is the most fantastic action movie till that point. Guess what?, it still is the best in my book.
However, that is not the movie this review is supposed to be about, but then again it is. Live Free was my most anticipated movie of the summer of 2007. I felt for sure that it would be a letdown and that there would no way to recapture the glory of the original Die Hard. However, I went into optimistic, that the glory of 1988 would be recaptured, that John McClane would, once again, rule the day.
Just how would John McClane relate to this tech saavy generation? Would he still be the same ole blue collar action hero or would be somehow transformed to fit in the 2000's?
Survey says, Same Ole John and wee different Die Hard. Of course, nothing could ever capture the claustrophobic excess of Nakatomi Plaza and they didn't try. Score one for Live Free. It is a wide open computer era action flick with one of the most stone cold, I'm gonna do it my way, the 80's way action hero.
Needless to say, I liked Live Free. It is not in the same galaxy as the original, but in its own right a glorified action romp that will satisfy even the most hungry of 80's fried action fans.
The blu ray is specatacular. The picture quality lives up to Fox's most impressive transfers and the all encompassing sound track will blow you away.
Now for a little cheese with my wine; I would have loved to seen the unrated version on blu. However, that cannot affect the review, because overall it's a great package and a great movie.
Simply stated, it's not Die Hard, but it is Live Free or Die Hard.
Summary of Live Free or Die Hard - Unrated (Two-Disc Special Edition)
The action explodes as never before in this 2-Disc Collector's Edition of Live Free or Die Hard! Start with the unrated movie version packed with more thrills more attitude... more John McClane! Then add a spectacular 10-part documentary that takes you where no Die Hard fan has gone before plus an uncensored interview with Bruce Willis on the studio backlot and more. With over 2 1/2 hours of special features this is the ultimate Die Hard experience. Yippee-ki-yay! System Requirements:Run time: 130 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/POLICE & DETECTIVE FILMS Rating: NR UPC: 024543476252 Manufacturer No: 2247625Twelve 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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