Jun 1, 2024
Die Hard 4.0 (Live free or die hard for the yanks) did something very important: give McClane a guy to bounce off of. By himself, sure he’s got one liners and some cool action scenes but that’s like it. With Matt there he’s got a good quality foil. He can inspire with his Dad-Movie-Paragoness. He can form a bond of mutual respect with someone he doesn’t share anything aside from a race and gender with. He has extra objectives that aren’t exclusively “kill guy to stop thing” since the “stop thing” bit is dependent on letting this beanpole sit and concentrate.
#also impressed how accurately they managed to depict the hackers#obviously they still did the whole ‘I’m in’ and standard tropes#but the anarchist bitches are surprisingly considered fairly good and normal#if naive#which is something I did not expect out of a fucking cop movie#anyway#die hard#die hard 4.0#live free or die hard#john mcclane#Matt Farrell#movies#action movies#character writing#writing