June 8, 200620 yr IGN- We've known for a while that Bruce Willis's fourth Die Hard film would involve technology. How, exactly, was a mystery, but AICN has shed some light on the story as it's shaping up. Warning: some minor spoilers follow: Die Hard 4 (called 4.0 until recently) is about a sophisticated plot to take the United States' technological infrastructure offline over a period of three days, bringing the economy to a halt and causing bedlam. First, "minor" systems like traffic light networks start to fail. Then banking networks, utilities, and other important services start to fail. Lastly, the power grid itself is sabotaged. All using computers, of course. While the perpetrators may at first seem to have a terrorist agenda, there could be other motives involved. Is there going to be a ransom demand? Is it a prelude to attack? Or is simple financial greed behind it all? Enter John McClane ? and his delinquent son John Jr., or "Jack G" as he goes by. Jack's just getting out of prison for computer-related crimes, and relations with his poor fatherly role-model are strained. However, the two of them are thrust into the midst of the excitement since, as it turns out, the cyber-criminals are using some of the same hacking tricks that landed Jack in jail. The government hopes to get things running again with Jack's help before the country plunges into a new Dark Age. However, it's not long before things go wrong, leaving McClane and son to fend for themselves. Clearly, a much grander story in scope than the previous three Die Hard films has emerged here. If John McClane's heroics in saving a skyscraper, an airport, and the federal government's gold weren't impressive enough, this time he's trying to save the entire United States.
June 8, 200620 yr Not bad for a New York cop with a bloody wifebeater and a drinking problem...quite the resume.
June 8, 200620 yr Yippie Ka-Yay Mother******! Looks interesting, I just hope its better than Die Hard 3..
June 8, 200620 yr Yippie Ka-Yay Mother******! Looks interesting, I just hope its better than Die Hard 3.. Are you talking about Die Hard with a Vengeance? What wasn't good about that movie?>
June 8, 200620 yr Author Yippie Ka-Yay Mother******! Looks interesting, I just hope its better than Die Hard 3.. Are you talking about Die Hard with a Vengeance? What wasn't good about that movie?> That was great casting in that film.
June 8, 200620 yr Yippie Ka-Yay Mother******! Looks interesting, I just hope its better than Die Hard 3.. Are you talking about Die Hard with a Vengeance? What wasn't good about that movie?> That was great casting in that film. I agree with th casting. Samuel Jones, Jeremy Irons, but there was just something about it that didn't attract me the way Die Hard and Die Hard 2. It wasn't a bad movie, just didn't do the same thing for me as the first two.
June 9, 200620 yr This sounds awful. The computer-hacker-son bit in the middle of this technology scare sounds cheesy. I thought the first two were pretty good, the third one was probably better than the second, don't know if I'd list it above the first. But, seeing Willis walk through the ghetto with that "I hate" sign was pretty damn funny.
June 9, 200620 yr This sounds awful. The computer-hacker-son bit in the middle of this technology scare sounds cheesy. I thought the first two were pretty good, the third one was probably better than the second, don't know if I'd list it above the first. But, seeing Willis walk through the ghetto with that "I hate" sign was pretty damn funny. Die Hard was my favorite. Alan Rickman is a favorite of mine. But ya, Vengeance was the most visually (and possibly action-packed) movie of the 3.
June 9, 200620 yr Yippie Ka-Yay Mother******! Looks interesting, I just hope its better than Die Hard 3.. Die Hard 3 was better than Die Hard 2 by quite a margin.
June 11, 200620 yr Samuel Jones eh? Anyway, this sounds like some plot off of 24, not Die Hard. But...it'll be intersting how it pans out. It's probably going to suck. I hope not though. I guess as long as John McTiernan is directing it, it should be good. And uh, please no middle eastern terrorists please. It's being done to death, real life and in movies.
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