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Live Free or Die Hard


Look, if you’ve got a brilliant plan for bringing the country to its knees for your own illegal profits, don’t murder your employees when they cease being useful; the ones you still need will stop trusting you. And if you’re going to murder them anyway; do it quietly; explosives attract attention. As you might guess, Live Free or Die Hard requires an extremely large suspension of disbelief, but it offers fine rewards to those who can laugh at its many improbabilities without giving up on the movie. The stunt-heavy action sequences thrill in a way that Spiderman 3′s CGI can’t even approach, and on those rare occasions when things aren’t blowing up or falling down, Bruce Willis’ John McClane is still an engaging and likable character, even if by movie number 4 he’s less believable than Donald Duck.

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