Hmmmmmm this is something I never thought I'd say

Well these are words that I reallllllly never thought I'd ever write (well to be honest its never been something that kept me up at night, unlike that weird big brother dream) but.....okay here goes, you can write it Mills...

Die Hard 4.0 is possibly the best movie I've seen at the cinema this year....

Okay mop the sweat off your brow and take your jaw off the floor; but yes that's what I meant to type. This may possibly herald the arrival of the 4 horsemen of the Apocolyptio (Death, Famine, war and Mel Gibson) but really Die Hard delivered 2 odd hours of entertainment, explosions, one liners, explosions, bad cameos, car crashes, explosions, quips oh and did I mention the explosions, seriously if something can get blown up/shot/ran over it does, twice.
I should first point out that thanks to Japan receiving movies months after they are out everywhere else I have only actually seen a few movies at the cinema this year but still just re read that sentence again.

First up I know some people have complained about the lack swearing, well frankly I'm not that fussed if John Mclain has a potty mouth or not, although if you are one of those people bothered simply write swear words on pieces of paper and then look down during the movie. Secondly it's Die hard, really don't go expecting nuance, in fact I'm pretty sure I saw some nuances get blown up (or shot)

I think I know why I was surprised, its all to do with expectations, or rather the lack of them. I first realised that expectations in movies is like expecting English buses ( one arrives eventually but you have sit next to shouty youths to get there) many many ohh sooo many years ago when I simply could not wait for Tim Burton to finish making Planet of the Apes, and received for my patience possibly the worst movie I have seen at the cinema (although to be fair I did watch Batman and Robin there) any move where a heavily made up (that is make up right?) monkied Helen B Carter outacts most of the actually (supposidly) human cast is NOT going to be good (and realllly don't get me started on the stoooopid ending). So since then I've learnt the hard way that expecting the greatest movie ever will only fail, expecting the unexpected... now that works every time. Take Spiderman 3. yeah after Doc Oc I was expecting great things, what did it deliver? song and dance routines, the introduction (but not conclusion) of sick children and the worst butler...EVER! Not many expectations of Pirates .... 3 and I get a mostly alright movie. So with Die Hard 4.0 I didn't really like the premise, Lens Wisemen (the director) somehow managed to make vampire vs Werewolfs bad and boring in Underworld (except Michael Sheen and Bill Nighy who are always good) Bruce WIllis looks like he would rather be making car adverts than movies in most things now adays. So to say the word MEH! was prevalent would be an understatement.

It's not to say that the movie is perfect,ooohhh no siry. Timothy Olyphant is good (and followling Die hard villains traditions smartly dressed) as the villain but seems to constantly have a look on his face as if he was served a super frapa mocha instead of a super supper frappa mocha. Rand the (strangely french??) rock hard bad guy disappears for a 1/4 of the movie only to suddenly pop up. While Mr. Wisemen seems to love things being hit by cars and bad guys getting shot in the foot juuust a little too much. And after watching for a while I realised I didn't quite realise what all the shouting was about and what any motives actually were. Oh yeah and the Kevin Smith cameo had me wishing Bruce really would beat him to death (yes yes yes I get it all computer guys are geeky collect figurines and live with their moms oh hahahah that hasn't been used in a movie before. )
But yeah
Die Hard 4.0 it's not the greatest thing ever, virtually everything get blown up and there's some stuff about computers
now hows that for a tag line.
Now the only worrying things is that Die hard 1 had the building being blown up, 2 had the airport being blown up, 3 New York, 4 Most states in America 5?? hmm well I'm thinking either intergalactic Alien punks or while posting a letter John Mclain gets involved in total global Apocalypse. Now that would be a film worth watching.