Merrick here...

This little tidbit is apparently a few days old (from late last week, to be precise). However, I haven't seen much about this anywhere and, thanks to a reader called The Teethgrinder, just found out about it myself.

With surprisingly little notice or fanfare, 10 minutes of LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD has appeared in cyberspace. I'm not 100% clear on where this footage originated from. It's branded by MovieWeb, although I can't find an article there which actually introduces the material. Maybe I missed something.

Anyway, here's the footage:

First impressions? Michael Bay style without Michael Bay energy. A little lackluster. Gloss, but no pulse. Lacks the "grit"...or "balls"...of the other films. This isn't helped much by Marco Beltrami's score, which (not surprisingly) feels a bit tepid when compared to Kamen's past work in the franchise. It's a DIE HARD score by way of Rick Berman.

Of course, this is only ten minutes of footage - the film as a whole could play out for the better, or worse. Eager to see the whole shebang, despite its PG-13 pussyfication.