2007 · action · thriller · survival
Live Free or Die Hard
Directed by Len Wiseman2h 8m2007
John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists intent on taking control of America's computer infrastructure.
Our read: Live Free or Die Hard (2007) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · thriller · survival entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
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“You want McClane as analog hero against digital-age terrorism and parkour.”
Skip it tonight — PG-13 violence softening or hacker-plot silliness breaks the franchise spell.
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