Title: Live Free or Die Hard
Genre: ACTION!
Cast: Bruce Willis, Timothy Olyphant, Justin Long, …
Director: Len Wiseman
Release: (2007)
Live Free or Die Hard continued...
AC: Oh, is it my turn to talk now? No, I don’t have a problem with hard work. I’m not sure how you get from what John McClane did in this movie to a lesson about the value of hard work, but …
SH: What don’t you see about it?
AC: Well for starters I think he single-handedly blew up and destroyed more property on his own than the terrorists were ever even trying to. I mean, there’s hard work and there’s recklessness, isn’t there?
SH: He does whatever it takes to get the job done.
AC: He just destroys everything! You don’t think there might be any other possible way to handle a situation like that? Even if it works eventually, is it worth it to burn down your whole house to kill one mouse?
SH: Well, you see, that’s why you live with mice. If that’s what it takes to get a rat out of my house and keep it away from my children then that’s what it takes, and it’s attitudes like yours that is exactly the reason why so many rats know it’s safe to try to sneak into and live in our country – because they know you’d rather live with them than do what it takes to get them all out.
AC: Ah, I see, so because I’m skeptical that one aging New York City detective could stop a band of genius cyber-terrorists by punching them, and then punching them harder whenever they say something he doesn’t understand, that means I must be inviting illegal immigrants in to sleep on my couch.
SH: Well, first of all, let me just say that I wouldn’t put anything past any member of the NYPD. But I never said any of that, you did.
AC: Alright, I think we could talk about this for the rest of the show but we’re up against a hard break here. Final word, Sean, thumbs up or thumbs down?
SH: Two thumbs up. Best feel good American movie since Rocky IV.
AC: And I’m going to have to go thumbs down. Loud, violent, pointless, incoherent, and perhaps the most transparent piece of manipulative propaganda since Rocky IV. So to recap, Live Free or Die Hard gets a split review: right thumb up, left thumb down. Coming up, Al Sharpton joins us live in studio to give us his top ten must-boycott children’s movies for 2008, should Hannah Montana be worried? We’ll find out when we get back.
Grading
Story: D
Acting: D
Visuals: B
Originality/Innovation: C
Enjoyability: C
Overall: C
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