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OFCS Rating: 77% Fresh |
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5/5 | "Marrying punishing action set-pieces to an unnerving disaster movie scenario, it grips the viewer with vice-like intensity, while never forgetting to revel in its own amiable absurdity." |
| musicOMH.com |
| Anton Bitel |
B+ | "It feels like a Die Hard movie, and that in itself is a tremendous compliment." |
| FromTheBalcony |
| Bill Clark |
C | "We know McClane is going to save the day, but it shouldn't be a forgone conclusion the minute Olyphant shows up looking like a Starbucks manager on a particularly itchy morning shift." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
C+ | "For an action spectacle movie held together by five or six over-the-top sequences, "Live Free or Die Hard" pays off handsomely albeit with a surplus of downtime in between." |
| ColeSmithey.com |
| Cole Smithey |
| "Celebrating John's residual renegadeness, his blue-collar-guy's irritation at what the state invariably gets wrong, the has it all ways, railing against hi-tech threats, soft bodies, fuzzy thinking, and "Asian chicks who like to kick people."" |
| PopMatters |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
4/5 | "It's a total blast, an exercise in excess that defies logic and plausibility in a fearless effort to entertain." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| David Cornelius |
2/4 | "...a pointless and thoroughly misguided sequel that tarnishes the series' overall effectiveness." |
| Reel Film Reviews |
| David Nusair |
B- | "It is what it is, a slick thriller loaded with over-the-top superhero action." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
2.5/4 | "Suspenseful and rousing and rarely stopping long enough to wear out its welcome. As crowd-pleasing spectacle, Live Free or Die Hard fits the bill." |
| TheMovieBoy.com |
| Dustin Putman |
3/5 | "Esta cuarta entrega de la saga entrega todo lo que promete: acción, acción, sentido del humor y más acción, con un Bruce Willis ideal en el papel que lo lanzó al estrellato." |
| Uruguay Total |
| Enrique Buchichio |
B | "It's been a while since we've had something as enjoyably bombastic and explosive as this. It feels like a summer blockbuster: A little dumb, a little smart, and a lot loud." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
B+ | "The summer's best blockbuster, bar none." |
| Film Blather |
| Eugene Novikov |
2.5/4 | "Its hyperactive 80's chic action crap and I had a blast just the same..." |
| Cinema Crazed |
| Felix Vasquez Jr. |
2/4 | "Debido a la falta de comprensión de quien es McClane, lo que tenemos es una ordinaria película de acción, tan efímera como la vigencia de sus efectos especiales." |
| Doncinema.com |
| Flavio J. Arosemena |
C+ | "Provides aficionados of empty-headed action with a surfeit of it. [But] this long-gestating third sequel has a lot to live up to, and unfortunately it doesn't quite manage." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
B | "In this fourth film, John McClane becomes a retrofitted icon; unadorned and simple, brutally back-to-basic, he's an action hero for an America uncomfortable with the rapid changes of the new millennium." |
| Modern Fabulousity |
| Gabriel Shanks |
2.5/4 | "Live Free or Die Hard may work better for an audience that doesn't know much about the series than it will for Die Hard die hards, who will be wondering who that impersonator is and what he did with the real John McClane." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
3/5 | "Live Free or Die Hard is surprisingly satisfying, largely because it is such an unapologetic throwback to pre-CGI mayhem." |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
| "It is is about as realistic as a Tom & Jerry cartoon, but then again, this is a Die Hard movie . . ." |
| SA Movie & DVD Magazine |
| James O'Ehley |
2.5/4 | "Fred Flintstone in the land of the Jetsons" |
| Perihelion Journal |
| Jay Antani |
7/10 | "Give director Len Wiseman credit for making the ridiculous (some might say 'imaginative') retain some semblance of gravity." |
| ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
| Jeffrey Chen |
7/10 | "The film moved at a clip, never bored me, offered an 'interesting' enough story-line for me to follow, and again, slam-dunked about half a dozen fun action sequences around the great McLane." |
| JoBlo's Movie Emporium |
| JoBlo |
3/4 | "The fourth entry in the John McClane series finds Bruce Willis battling a group of high-tech cyber-terrorists who clearly haven't watched an action movie in two decades." |
| Big Picture Big Sound |
| Joe Lozito |
| "Movie characters like McClane are the Paul Bunyans and John Henrys and Pecos Bills of our age, the stuff of tall tales spun with the technology of an age whose campfires are found in multiplexes with stadium seating." |
| Film.com |
| Jonathan F. Richards |
3/4 | "Pesky, durable John McClane manages to show up everywhere and anywhere a key criminal exercise is taking place." |
| Bangitout.com |
| Jordan Hiller |
3/4 | "Duro de Matar 4.0 cumple con lo que promete: grandes dosis de acción, un héroe del pasado al que siempre es emocionante mirar y un argumento prácticamente inexistente que sirve sólo como sostén de las secuencias cargadas de adrenalina." |
| Moviola |
| Jorge Avila Andrade |
3/5 | "click for full review" |
| Movies for the Masses |
| Joseph Proimakis |
4.5/5 | "At last! A real summer movie, the first real satisfying action blockbuster since 28 Weeks Later. (That was two months ago, for anyone keeping score.) It recaptures the gruff wit of the first, classic installment, while expanding upon the destructive insa" |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Karina Montgomery |
3.0/4.0 | "With an infectious laugh when he blows up the bad guys and the power to stay alive no matter what, Bruce Willis' John McClane is a welcome sight back in theaters." |
| MovieCrypt.com |
| Kevin A. Ranson |
4/5 | "No pun intended, but I had a blast watching this film." |
| Film School Rejects |
| Kevin Carr |
2/4 | "Bring. Back. McTiernan." |
| Montreal Film Journal |
| Kevin N. Laforest |
B+ | "Summer 2007 so far has been one disappointing tent pole sequel after another, but suddenly one comes out of mothballs and really delivers...entertaining as hell." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Laura Clifford |
2.5/4 | "It's brainlessly exhilarating until the fighter-jet scene, at which point the high-octane idiocy becomes too preposterous to bear... and there's still a solid half hour to go." |
| TV Guide's Movie Guide |
| Maitland McDonagh |
2.5/3 | "La jungla 4.0 es la película más espectacular de los últimos años" |
| Off-Off-Critica |
| MalaBesta |
2.5/4 | "The rest of the movie can't keep up with its truly cracker-jack premise, turning it into a series of action sequences that might sound imaginative but play just as ludicrously as they sound." |
| Mark Reviews Movies |
| Mark Dujsik |
| "Hoorah! John McClane is back! Yippee-kai-ay! Right? Eh, not so much.... Live Free doesn't feel particularly, you know, Die Hardy...." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
3/4 | "Action movies don't get any more mindless than this, but sometimes mindlessness is fun too." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
B+ | "It will blow the popcorn box out of your hand." |
| Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
| Nell Minow |
2.5/4 | "More unpleasant than the notion that Matt's nationalism and manhood can only be validated with a gun, though, is the misogyny that creeps into Mark Bomback's script." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Nick Schager |
4/5 | "First, the good: it's f*cking Die Hard. John McClane is back and killing improbably large numbers of bad guys while causing extraordinary amounts of property damage." |
| Film Threat |
| Pete Vonder Haar |
3/5 | "It's efficient and entertaining, but even more preposterous than the first three films." |
| Shadows on the Wall |
| Rich Cline |
2/5 | "As clueless about the original's appeal as the previous two follow-ups." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Rob Gonsalves |
B- | "This year's honorary It Could Have Been Worse Award goes to Bruce Willis, who proves nearly as durable as his signature hero, John McClane." |
| Flipside Movie Emporium |
| Rob Vaux |
B | "The kind of funny, exciting, entertaining action film that 'Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End' was supposed to be." |
| Laramie Movie Scope |
| Robert Roten |
B | "... there's still something cinematically satisfying in seeing the veteran street cop McClane plugging along like a dogged boxer against a younger and stronger opponent..." |
| Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Sean Axmaker |
4.5/5 | "timely, terrifying, and terrifically entertaining" |
| Filmcritic.com |
| Sean O'Connell |
| "Willis' John McClane, with that sly, sideways smile, is like an old acquaintance you don't mind running into. He may be older and balder, but he's none the worse for the wear. And he can still take a punch." |
| Salon.com |
| Stephanie Zacharek |
B | "Wisely, Live Free doesn't try to replicate the paranoia or intimidation of the first film… This time, it's his unflappable calm that intimidates his brash young opponent, not the other way around." |
| Christianity Today |
| Steven D. Greydanus |
8/10 | "A solid popcorn picture - primarily because the stunts are spectacular." |
| www.susangranger.com |
| Susan Granger |
8/10 | "An extremely proud throwback that has the basic decency to steal from the very best." |
| Antagony & Ecstasy |
| Tim Brayton |
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OFCS Rating: 77% Fresh |
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