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A serious tough guy, wishing by no means to be a hero, but accidentally becoming him during different feasts. Who? Of course, John McClane – ordinary police detective returning to our cinema screens. In order to teach the baddies. Any crime, even original and ravishingly planned, must be revealed. Its organizers must be arrested.

"Die Hard 4.0" is the movie of the 21st century. It consists of the minimum ironical dialogues and maximum dose of action. The old Hollywood formula dictates to finish introducing the characters at the 20th minute of the story and start the adventures. The first "Die Hard" film that successfully appeared in the year 1988, diligently followed this formula. In the new film, the shooting takes place immediately and without introduction. The direction was entrusted to Len Wiseman, author of "Underworld". He has kindly surprised me, by presenting not only the effective attraction of advantages, but, by being able to maintain that layout, which causes us to sympathize John McClane for so many years. Actor Bruce Willis ideally fits the main hero. He is more than 50. He runs hard. His wife – Hollywood star Demi Moore – left him and married the considerably younger guy. At the set, he is relentlessly caused to still be the last action film hero. He is such: arrived from the 80s, fond of listening to classical rock by "Creedance" and realizing nothing about the modern information technologies. It is hard to fight against the enemies, as the whole state control is automated and entrusted to a single computer centre. Who controls these computers, that takes all possible assets. The bald character of Bruce Willis has only to follow the old methods: to respond to the hit in double manner. If the close person is threatened – go and eliminate the villain.

The computer knowledge is offset by young hacker Matthew Farrell (28-year-old actor Justin Long, who still plays the teenagers). The action of the film begins with John McClane receiving the simplest task – to deliver the computer pirate to the FBI agents. Short escort turns into the long adventure. Totally as in "16 Blocks" thriller by Richard Donner seen recently. The amount of money spent is different. And exactly "Lethal Weapon" by Richard Donner competed with "Die Hard" in the action cinema arena. Today, we can see the result.

John McClane still dies hard, matching the original name of the film "Die Hard", which has been unnecessarily ignored by the film distributors, by distorting the ironical sense.

John McClane's balls are still hard and withstand the powerful Kung- fu hits. Bruce Willis himself accepted that the most difficult episodes he found were those when he was kicked by erotic Hong Kong beauty Maggie Q. The director succeeded in organizing the persuadable company of actors. The main terrorist of the virtual space was played by Timothy Olyphant ("Sex and the City"), who impressively contributed to the camp of enemies. The French-speaking actor Cyrill Raffaeli, who has mastered the Parkour that is popular in Europe, tries to manage detective McClane in person. However, McClane may only be injured. Not killed. John McClane is the symbol, who does not die equally like James Bond. These two characters have become much similar. Daniel Craig's agent 007 became harsher. Bruce Willis's McClane started jumping down from the planes. We are forced to believe that he is not less lively than his colleague from the secret British service.

The first "Die Hart" films developed the plot in the closed space (skyscraper and airport). They used the claustrophobic tension and actor's contrasts. The third part of "Die Hard" has mainly collapsed because the action has been transferred to the streets of the city. This made the integrity of the story collapse.

In this, latest, film, the place of action is not limited. Therefore, the underexperienced director had to sweat well for us not to have a tedious time. Our focus had to see the memorable heroes all the time. The lack of the particular place of action needed to be offset by the stunning adventures.

I think the task is fulfilled. I agree with the viewers, who were sitting at the hall and applauding after the ordinary effective action episode. Only the cinema magic and artfully distributed humorous cues may cause to believe the trueness of the events being shown. There is plenty enough of them in the film. They even more cause to remember "Casino Royale"- the most stylish adventure film of the year 2006. The new "Die Hard" justly pretends to the best summer entertainment, buys us over with its wittiness and ageless hero. Let Bruce Willis not become angry, but he was born exactly for this role. We must not become surprised, if the producers will cause him to pin a police officer's badge and to introduce himself to us once again: "Hello. I'm McClane. John McClane".