Live Free or Die Hard

 

       I don't think I could ever pick a favorite movie, but one of them is Live Free or Die Hard. This movie is the 4th installment of the Die Hard Series in which actor Bruce Willis plays as John McClane; a former Marine and New York City detective. It is one of my favorite movies because it is packed with action scenes and a well thought out plot. It also kept me entertained the whole time. Action movies like this appeal to me because they're usually based of real life situations. When watching them they make you think what if this happened in real life. In a quick summary, a prior government computer genius Thomas Gabriel (played by Timothy Olyphant) turns against the country and begins to initiate a "fire sale." A fire sale is where major components of the country are disrupted and eventually done away with through hacking the systems which control them. These things include the stock market, traffic grid, power grid, financial system, etc. It basically sends a country into the stone age. John McClane and hacker Matthew Farrell (played by Justin Long) are the only people that can prevent him from succeeding. The actors are Bruce Willis, Timothy Olyphant, Justin Long, Kevin Smith, and Cliff Curtis. The actresses are Maggie Q and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. The film was released in 2007 and directed by Len Wiseman.