Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Movie Review: {Live Free or} Die Hard(er) [with a Vengeance], #3

#3, Die Hard with a Vengeance: 3.5 Stars.
It’s 1995, and McClane’s doing the cat-and-mouse puzzle bit again.  Well, this time though there’re puzzles, and then there’s a meta-puzzle, which was a new add-on to past efforts.  Simon Gruber, yes, brother of the dead bad guy from the first movie, has McClane scrambling around NYC fixing minor problems.  “Simon says... go tie your brain in knots.”  Samuel L. Jackson takes a good half-hour to warm up into his role as Zeus the racist shopkeeper, but after that he’s got the part really going.  Standard helping of action, and of course, wisecracks.  3.5 stars, for all of the standard Die Hard stuff, but also for the layered puzzle twist.

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