Live Free or Die Hard - Yeah, they're stretching for titles in the series now. Well, I don't remember what the other ones were, so maybe they already were stretching, but this is a bit too much of the whole founding fathers deal. The movie doesn't do anything with the founding fathers, though, preferring to stick with the buddy movie schtick with the wisecracking Bruce Willis and the über-geek Justin Long (you'll recognize him from the Macintosh ads... I was kind of hoping the PC guy would make a guest appearance, but no such luck).
The effects were fabulous, of course. The scene where they duck between two cars to avoid a third car flying through the air at them, and the one where Willis' character flips a car off a ramp to hit a helicopter, were very cool, although completely unbelievable. You really need to turn off your brain for a good chunk of this movie.
Willis is still fun to watch, and Long is a good foil for him. Kevin Smith makes an appearance as a geek's geek (more über than über... mehrüber? German's just about gone, sorry) living in his mom's basement. He's frighteningly believable in the role. The most fun to watch in the movie, though, is Maggie Q. Watching her kick, climb, punch and jump here way through an extended fight scene, my movie companion asked, "Who is she, Spider-Man?" I wonder who her stunt double was... no way it was really her.
All in all, this was an enjoyable movie. If you can watch it with beer, all the better.
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