Click here to see the new trailer for the the fourth film in the Die Hard series. What you will see has whoop-ass, crunches and kabooms aplenty, but if it didn't keep saying 'Die Hard 4! Die Hard 4!' all the time and use the PG-friendly half of that famous line, we'd be hard pushed to recognise this as a further adventure of John McClane.
It certainly looks spectacular and like it's going to be one the summer's highest up the bang for buck exchange rate. Cars fighting helicopters are almost always cool and men jumping off very high things onto much lower, but still really high things has yet to lose its novelty value. But the tone is a bit off, with plenty of straight-faced bad guy beating and not enough of John McClane's exhausted, pissed off humour. We like most of those involved in this film: Bruce Willis (awesome), Timothy Olyphant (Great), Maggie Q (Hot), Justin Long (Hilarious), Len Wiseman (Well, he's always been a really nice guy when we met him), so we're hoping this isn't fully indicative of the final product. We want this to be great - we LOVE Die Hard - but right now we're just not entirely feeling it.
Oh yeah, for those who live in caves on the moon, the plot is about John McClane saving America from some computer virus that's going bring down the country's infrastructure – by making everyone's email come out in the wrong point size or something. We don't know, we're film geeks, not computer nerds. Then things go bang, wheee and kablooey!