Die Hard 4 - awesome

I went to see Die Hard 4 (Live Free or Die Harder) yesterday or the day before. It is freakin' awesome. If you like shoot-em up, kill-em action movies with some plot (but not much), this is the best movie out right now. And for you bar takers who need some mindless action (and can temporarily set aside everything you've learned about custodial interrogation and other various 4th amendment bar issues), this is a great two-hour break. As many of you forget, John McClane is the original Jack Bauer (who unfortunately doesn't make an appearance). And if you've never seen any of the original Die Hard movies (at least the first and second), that's okay, there is very little continuation between them. His daughter is grown up though.

I did have to laugh (out of the absurdity) everytime he was in DC and saying "I'm NYPD, out of my way" - I'm not sure how much weight that would carry in real life when he's outside of his jurisdiction. And we all know from Sept. 11 that the cell phones and land lines can't really handle the type of volume that would make it easy to get through to the police in an emergency. Nonetheless....

Other than portraying the government like a chicken with its head cut off during a national crisis, the movie isn't too bad. Kevin Smith has a minor role but it's not that funny. I kept waiting for the mac kid (Justin Long) to say "Hi, I'm a mac" but it never happened. Talk about a typecast kid, but good for him since he probably makes more money than all of us bar takers combined. Also, there is a smoking hot girl who I've never seen before (Maggie Q), who happens to be very close to my age, which is great if I become an entertainment lawyer and the east coast becomes the new Hollywood. And for fans of Deadwood, Timothy Olyphant is the bad guy (who plays more of a lame villain than a bad ass as he does in Deadwood).

So, take a 4th of July break and see Die Hard 4. It's worth your $10 at a cost of at most, one MBE question.

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