Die Hard 4.0

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Year:	2007
Country of origin:	USA / UK
Director:	Len Wiseman
Genre:	Top class actioner
Starring:	Bruce Willis, Justin Long, Timothy Olyphant
Rating:	5/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337978/
Tagline:	Yippee Ki Yay Mo - John 6:27
Favourite line:	"It's a three-step... it's a three-step systematic attack on the entire national infrastructure. Okay, step one: take out all the transportation. Step two: the financial base and telecoms. Step three: You get rid of all the utilities. Gas, water, electric, nuclear. Pretty much anything that's run by computers which... which today is almost everything. So that's why they call it a fire sale, because everything must go."

A new Die Hard for a new millenium but, I am pleased to report, the quality remains unaffected.
With the exception of the putrid heap of dung that is number 2, the Die Hard series is four movies old and still going strong, though whether Bruce is youthful enough to pull the same trick off for a fifth time remains to be seen.

This time around Willis' McClane is up against cyber criminals hell bent on instigating what is know as a 'Fire Sale', a three pronged attack to take out trasnport, telecoms and utilities, sending society (or Washngton D.C.) back to the stone age. Inevitably, there's financial gain for those responsible as, just prior to the meltdown, monies would be transferred to an unaffected account overseas.

As with the two other good Die Hard movies though, the plot is almost incidental, as this is all about the main character, his intrerplay with the characters he meets along the way and, of course, the action set pieces, which are glorious (yes, even the jet plane sequence towards the end, as ludicrous as it is.)
Willis is in fine form playing his best character creation, and Justin Long is convincing as the terrified hacker Matt Farrell.
A stunning action movie for the noughties, this is just sheer class.