Not to be left behind in this world of digitally connected internet saga, John McClane (Bruce Willis) outsmarts a smart team of Hackers led by a criminally minded erstwhile Military Consultant. Live Free or Die Hard (Die Hard 4.0) is just plain freaking awesome. We have Matt Farrell (Justin Long of the Get a Mac fame) helping McClane with the digital part of the game.

On a fateful 4th of July weekend, a massive computer attack on the United States infrastructure shuts down almost the whole country. Old time NYPD detective, “a Timex watch in a digital age”, John McClane have to fight the terrorist cyber attack, popularly known as the Fire Sale that took out the Fire departments, traffic coordinators, the FBI, gas and electrical power. McClane is at his best, though 12 years older since Die Hard with a Vengeance.

That evening, McClane gets a call to pick up a suspected computer hacker for the FBI. Matt Farrell was one of the several computer hacker recruited to help the villain Thomas Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant). Some of the action sequences were over-done; the like of the truck being chased and shot at by an F-35B VTOL fighter jet. As usual the hacking sequences, computer screens looks more out of a 3D creation program and special effects thrown in but that’s ok as we are made to believe in Hollywood movies that “Hacking is done that way” – retrieve password, hack password, upload virus!

Gabriel hires and forms a bunch of startups with freelance hackers and once they are done, kill them through an IM chat that triggers some sort of a bomb fitted into their computers/hardwares. Anyway, there isn’t much of a story and is plain enough to be understood for most common cinegoers. You’ve to enjoy the violence, noise and the mayhem of the digital special effects. Of course, you’ll love our non-destructive Detective Hero and the ever-hungry, sarcastic Hacker.

Watch out for the Kevin Smith’s name display during the beginning credit roll. The “m” in the Smith disappears and we can see “Sith” for a few seconds thus paying homage to Kevin Smith’s love for “Star Wars” which is also reflected in his character, Warlock the Hacker, in the movie.

In India, we don’t really have to worry about many movie ratings; it is either a “U” for Universal or an “A” for Adult or a “U/A” for both Adult/Universal. Die Hard 4.0 is rated “A” for its violence.

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