More life for Die Hard franchise

Posted by Jared

After the rampant success of Die Hard, Die Harder, and Die Hardest, 20th Century Fox is back for another kick at the aging franchise can with Die Hard 4: Die Hardester (and yes, I did make up those last two).

The film, titled Live Free or Die Hard, features his John McClane police officer attempting to stop a techno-terrorist from shutting down the nation's computer systems on the Fourth of July.

While it may be getting increasingly hard to muster up enough suspension of disbelief to imagine John McClane once again landing in the wrong place at the right time, I have enough of a soft spot for Bruce Willis to grant a little leeway. This is just another fine link in the "Bruce saves the (fill in the blank)" chain, which includes:

Bruce saves himself
Bruce saves the exotic dancer
Bruce saves the kid who sees dead people
Bruce saves the building
Bruce saves the airport
Bruce saves the planet
Bruce saves the universe (but does some pretty good damage to his career)

'Die Hard' series coming back to life [usatoday.com]

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