Die hard 4.0 is plenty of fun, and a fantastic example of the final nail in the coffin of an ever worsening franchise that started out being seminal. It's a brilliant exercise, on the part of the filmakers, in missing the point. I was hoping to see the resurrection of John McClane, instead the whole thing reinforced the character's death somewhere in the aquaduct in 'Die Hard With a Vengence'. This wasn't the down-to-earth, bummed out and vulnerable John McClane. What we got was some tongue-in-cheek, superhuman, parody of an imitation, without any of the character's course, streetwise wit. How's this for a character arc: our very first introduction to the man in 1988 showed us a guy afraid of flying, by the end of Die Hard 4.0 he has surfed on a fighter jet!
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