Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2847 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-10-29
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: DTS Surround Sound, PAL
• Original language: English, German, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 123 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Twelve years after Die Hard with a Vengeance, the third and previous film in the Die Hard franchise, Die Hard 4.0 finds John McClane (Bruce Willis) a few years older, not any happier, and just as kick-ass as ever. Right after he has a fight with his college-age daughter (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), a call comes in to pick up a hacker (Justin Long, Dodgeball) who might help the FBI learn something about a brief security blip in their systems. Now any Die Hard fan knows that this is when the assassins with foreign accents and high-powered weaponry show up, telling McClane that once again he's stumbled into an assignment that's anything but routine. Once that wreckage has cleared, it is revealed that the hacker is only one of many hackers who are being targeted for extermination after they helped set up a "fire sale," a three-pronged cyberattack designed to bring down the entire country by crippling its transportation, finances, and utilities. That plan is now being put into action by a mysterious team (Timothy Olyphant, Deadwood, and Maggie Q, Mission: Impossible 3) that seems to be operating under the government's noses. Die Hard 4.0 uses some of the cat-and-mouse elements of Die Hard with a Vengeance along with some of the pick-'em-off-one-by-one elements of the now-classic original movie. And it's the most consistently enjoyable installment of the franchise since the original, with eye-popping stunts (directed by Len Wiseman of the Underworld franchise), good humour, and Willis's ability to toss off a quip while barely alive. Yippee-ki-ay! --David Horiuchi

Synopsis
After a twelve-year hiatus, Bruce Willis is back as New York City detective John McClane, who still plays by his own set of rules. Following DIE HARD (1988), DIE HARD 2 (1990), and DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE (1995), the fourth instalment in the popular action series stars DEADWOOD's Timothy Olyphant as Thomas Gabriel, an evil mastermind who is determined to bring down the entire infrastructure of the United States on Independence Day, sending the country into anarchy and chaos. Joining him on his mission of destruction is the elegant Mai, played by Maggie Q from MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III. McClane becomes involved when he gets caught in the crossfire while transporting prisoner Matt Farrell (Justin Long, IDIOCRACY), a hacker extraordinaire who is the perfect complement to the old-school McClane, who eschews mobile phones, computers, and doing anything the easy way. But when Gabriel kidnaps McClane's daughter, Lucy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead, DEATH PROOF), it gets personal. Full of the sarcastic humour, exciting action sequences--including a car flying into a helicopter--and fun characters that have defined the series, DIE HARD 4.0 is an excellent addition, directed by Len Wiseman (UNDERWORLD). The movie also features Kevin Smith as a computer geek known as Warlock, who still lives in his mother's basement.

Customer Reviews

Gives you what you expect.... Action Action Action
John is back and doing what he does best saving the day! If your looking for a film with none stop action then this is the one for you, the film never gets boring there is a story to follow and its easy enough to get into its in a nutshell about a computer hacker thats trying to destroy the usa by taking all the countrys money. John is as always in the wrong place at the wrong time but hes the man to save the day and he does so.

Even Better in Blu Ray!!
Brilliant Film! any die hard fan will find this on par with the first die hard film and blueray just makes it 100x better!

Bruce Willis Looks as Fit as Ever in Top Die Hard Film
When I heard of Die Hard 4.0 my first thoughts were "they're are really milking this dry" not so....Bruce Willis returns as the infamous Detective John McClane in what is best described as one of the finest Die Hard Films of the Four....In a computer age the USA is under a threat of a total closedown of all transport,business and power through the proverbial genius who has just turned lunatic in tapping into every Government computer known to man the reason? to get the $$$millions of dollars payoff that he didn't get when working for the US Government in the past..... Queue the role for the thorn in the side cop to spoil it .....Bruce Willis plays his role to utmost perfection and even with the years going by from the last Die Hard he is still every bit as believeable as the cop who gets the bad guys playing his role with class to spare and incredible stunts...Die Hard 4.0 is a fast action special effects bonanza with a great storyline that fits into the modern day with ease.....from professional hitmen to computer whizz kids it becomes a battle of the minds as well as the braun....This Blu-ray is everything you would want it to be in terms of reference quality with picture pin sharp and the sound absolutely sublime especially with explosions making your living room shake..... A Blu-ray of reference quality status and a film to match....real class