Katie and I saw "Live Free or Die Hard" last night and it is the best completely non-redeeming movie I've seen in a while. This is pure summer-blockbuster, mindless-action, entertaining (at least for guys) kind of movie. It is unrealistic, violent, humorous, not too long, and worth seeing in a simple escapist kind of way. I haven't seen any of the other movies in the series and would now like to; I'm hoping they will be just as good. There are a lot of movies out there that try to be good action movies and fail miserably. This is not one of those movies and is more on the order of the "Indiana Jones" films; just with slightly less plot.
On principle, I would never give more than four stars to an action movie. This film has earned all four in my book.
The first one was really good. The second one was pretty good as well. The third one was ok. I haven't seen "Live Free..." yet so I can't say how it compares.
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