4. Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
We need many things in this world. We need more food for the hungry; more funding for healthcare and education; more jobs for the unemployed. But Ill tell you one thing we most certainly do not need: more Die Hard movies. Lets be honest, Die Hard was awesome; Die Hard 2 was pretty good but more of the same; Die Hard With a Vengeance well, ok, but youre starting to push it now. And that should have been it, preserved forever as a pretty damn awesome trilogy on the whole. After all, how can the same sh*t happen to the same guy
fourtimes?! The problem I have with the whole affair is that, when you really examine it, nobody seems to actually care about the Die Hard series any more, about John McClane; 20th Century Fox dont, so long as hes still making them money, the producers dont, and Bruce Willis certainly doesnt seem to, at least outside of the the fact that it lines his wallet. If he did, then why would he allow it to be bastardised so unceremoniously? Why would he allow his own performance of this once incredible, sparky, raggedy and unpredictable character to become so self-parodying and blasé? Willis just looks bored of the role by Live Free or Die Hard. So why does he continue? Well, nobody gets bored of huge piles of cash, that's why. None of that original fire or venom in his eyes remains in Die Hard 4.0 Its justbeige, cardboard cut-out, spit-out-a-catchphrase-and-get-outta-there emptiness, devoid of any sense of the warm heart and soul that made the original outing so iconic.