Live Free or Die Hard

*** Stars

John McClane is back with a bang...

Bruce Willis has brought back to life the role that made him a star. Pushing 60 years old has not stopped him from kicking total ass.

On the July 4th holiday, an attack on the vulnerable United States infrastructure begins to shut down the entire nation. The mysterious figure behind the scheme known as Thomas Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant) has figured out every modern angle to prevent anyone from damaging his plan, convoluted as it is. Still, it does give us a taste of what the world is rapidly becoming...a technological nightmare. Our greatest inventions could very soon become our downfall. A perfectly cast Justin Long plays Matt Farrell, a tech-nerd who buddies up with McClane to help him stop this meltdown.

Willis rocks the screen with his old-school attitude and macho sense of invincibility. Sure McClane looks like Superman at some points, (especially when he outruns an F-18 with an eighteen wheel semi), but the action is non stop and has lots of fun with its stunts. In the words of the television edited version of Die Hard...Yippee Ki Yay Melon Farmer.