Speaking of mister falcon's, I still don't think anything beats learning that in "Scarface" he got this infamous scar from eating pineapple. Hm.

Who the hell is THIS guy? John McClane got Scientology - that's the only explanation.

LIVE FREE SUCKS HARD. FOX BLOWS.

So then Vern, do you really think they cut enough stuff out to add back to an R rated DVD? I'm still confused and scared as to what this movie will deliver. So the main villain isn't that bad nor too memorable, yet the rest of the 'henchmen' pick up the slack? And no blood on the bad guys? Huh? How is that possible?

I do find it refreshing to hear that the action can actually be followed and you can understand what the fuck is going on. While I liked the first Underworld, I find it very surprising that Len W. actually made some good action scenes. So you mentioned it compared to the sequels, in terms of if you liked them, you'd like this one. How does it rate overall in terms of rating all 4 movies?

You certainly make it sound like the R rated version DVD would make your balls yo-yo around like motherfuckers.

I was in Jr. High Dickweed.

"Pretty fairly unappreciated, Al."

Every day I am reminded of that film by another sometime talkbacker, Sylvester Stallone - Demolition Man. I do not want to live in that world where there is no sex or swearing or red meat or smoking or violent action films and the only man we have to look up to is Dennis fucking Leary. In just a few days, I will no longer be able to smoke in public places over here in little England. Added to that, this softer, gentler Die Hard. What's next? So, I am worried that this world of a sub-par Stallone film is going to happen whether I like it or not, and it probably won't even have a psychotic Wesley Snipes in it to perk things up. I say boo to that. Boo!

I like smoking, I want to be able to eat red meat, call someone that spills coffee on me on the tube a cunt, drink GUINESS, not give a toss about a low fat alternative, play violent games, and watch proper violent adult thrillers.

This pandering to families and a belief that people only fuck up their bodies because they can't help themselves must stop. Drugs are banned and people still take them. WE LIKE BEING ABLE TO DO WHAT THE FUCK WE WANT. LEAVE US ALONE.

Nope, this low calorie alternative we seem to be blindly heading towards is a bad thing. Sort of Brave New World-y but with George Lucas substituted as God instead of Henry Ford.

And I do indeed want to read the other AICN staff reviews on this one. Either for the vitriol they might heap on the flick, or for the even-handedness of this review, they'll be worth the price of admission.

Are you joking? Or are you really one of these awful, awful people who thinks everything that could possibly offend a parent (because, let's face it, this kind of ludicrous hysteria is more often about THEIR sensibilites than it is those of the children) should be removed from the world?

As to the Captivity thing, I think it was just one writer who took a stand against that ad campaign (using the old "as a parent..." excuse) rather than the whole site. Even so, AICN can hardly be considered a bastion of integrity anymore.

I do agree the Eli Roth thing was a little tasteless, but then I also think the tastelessness is one of the things I like about AICN. Where else can you go for expressions like 'dead raped deer' and 'kicked me in the cunt'. If parents don't want their kids seeing these images or reading these words, it's their job to keep their young 'uns away from them. It is not OUR job to protect THEIR children for them.

P.S. excuse the capitals. I'm not shouting; just wishing I could italicise somehow. For emphasis and whatnot.

What a glorious accident Fight Club was, by the way. Whether people like that film or not, you have to agree it's a near miracle that thing got made and released by a major studio. Good work, David Fincher.

(There isn't...)

You are giving talentless marketing whores ideas.

except that Cody Banks one. That I would pay to see. I would only give it a mild retitling as today's teen scum are too stupid to understand time travel (and, hey fuck it, one evil bastard is the same as another) and have it ACB3: FUCK YOU OSAMA

Die Hard is dead.

P.S.: Here's another definition for Die Hard:

"Clinging to a seemingly hopeless or outdated cause." That would describe this PG-13 Die Hard movie. So fuck Tom Rothman, Fox and Rupert Murdoch. I left you out Vern, but seriously - you capitulated. It's sad.

YES!!! Make it SO!

Ace Hunter, Cmdr MEGAFORCE, reassures us...

"It's all on the wheel, it all comes around!"

Good thing you waited Vern, before making any snap judgements (kidding!))

Bring on the welsh villain.

wasn't Rickman's accent german- and Irons accent changed like 7 times. THe other villain was american.

(Besides, it was all a publicity stunt in the first place. They took the ad down as soon as it got them the attention they wanted.)

By the way ... Fox can go fu(gunshot) themselves for watering LFODH down, and there better motherfu(gunshot)in be a fu(gunshot)in "Unrated", "Director's Cut" or whatever they want to fu(gunshot)in call it that delivers the real goods. Fu(gunshot)in Fox losers ... you people suck ass. It really is a disservice to the fans of the franchise, but you people don't really care do you. As long as the $$$ flow in, FUCK THE PEOPLE, right Fox? Stupid motherfu(gunshot)ers have no fu(gunshot)in business sense. Don't you idiots realize how much more money you would make with a hardcore real Die Hard action flick? The audience that actually wants to see this (read not the fu(gunshot)in teeny-boppers) would love a movie IN THE FU(gunshot)ING tradition of the OTHER FILMS IN THE SERIES. I hate you, Fox losers. You suck. Ass.

But if you're wrong about Live Free or Die Hard/Die Hard 4.0, I will personally and metaphysically reach through the internets and Force-choke you inna Captain Needa stylee.

I keed.

Cyril Raffaeilli, however, I already know is the shit, as is District 13. CR's fight scene in the casino being a particularly stand out moment of mind-boggling ass-kickery.

Generalizations are for the weak minded.

Rickman had a German accent at the beginning of Die Hard, then fell back on his English accent when McClane figures out his bullshit plan, by the by.

Anyway, I love my country, and I would protect it from all real threats. But namecalling? Fuck man, the BEST part of our country is the fact that anyone can say ANYTHING in their opinions! Fuck yeah, come here and call Americans whatever you want, but simply respect that we are the kings of adaptation and amalgamation. (not always the finest trait, mind, but one of our more unique) And the fact that we aspire to the best in our natures, even if we are easily influenced.

Whoa, hey! It's just a joke, buddy.

Oh... should I not have addressed you as 'sir?'

Really loved that you disscussed the geography of the action scenes, most people don't realize that this is 75% of what makes an action scene have intensity.

It is hard to feel the action when you don't know what is really at stake or how close a character is to being defeated or winning at any given moment.

One aspect i was really hoping for was a hatred for the bad guy. I wanted the kidnapping of McClanes daughter to create an atmosphere of anger in the viewer similar to the feeling you get watching Leathal Wepon 2. You just want the hero to kill every single one of the bastards and then tourture the motherfucker. You should be shouting at you screen going "Come On! KIll them cunts!"

Great review man.

I stood up went and snatched his phone from his ear, it was flip open and i just bent it back until it snapped. I dropped it on the floor and stared at him till he walked out.

Most satisfying moment ever. I pitty you guys in the U.S i saw the first Spiderman there and you people can't shut up for more than 10 seconds.

The reviews are fairly good so far. Although the USA Today one sent a shudder up my spine, in that it suggested Fox may be looking to revive the series with Justin Long replacing Bruce. (A nerdy hero put into an impossible situation.)

T3 should have gotten a brilliant director to make a war film set in the future.

What was the point of re-hashing T2?

It could have been a perfect trilogy...T1 sci-fi horror clasic...T2 sci-fi action classic...T3 sci-fi war movie classic.

Sometimes it is worse when you don't hate a movie, you feel conficted that you enjoy T3/DH4 butdon't feel they are in any way worthy of finishing a great series of films.

They took a risk with xmen by letting singer direct, they took a big risk with batman begins by letting Nolan direct and by letting him make a film which would probably bore anyone under the age of 18.

Ang lees Hulk was a massive risk. 'Oh lets let the guy who did sense and sensibility direct and we'll get the guy out of Chopper (which hardly anyone had seen) to star.' That is taking a risk, people where devided by the film (i love it) but you have to admire the respect they had for the genre giving a big budget movie to an art house director and letting him have free run with it.

Hollywood can be a good place but they never learn from their success.

If taking a risk on Spidey, x-men and BB worked why do they act like it is impossible to take risks with projects like FF or DH4.

It was like they did a survey of the most unintersting setting for a alien film and came up with 'non descript dark corridors inside a pyramid.

Anyone read the graphic novel? Similar plot but it is all set in a wester type mining colony on a desert plannet, theres even hover bike type things they get around on. It would have made a brilliant movie.

Bruce Willis wasn't lieing when he said it was the best since the first. For what it is... I'd say it's as well done as the first one. It's not innovative like the first, but, hey, that's one reason the first kicked so much ass. This one definititly breathed life back into the series and I hope it makes enough we get another 2

"why don't we go outside and see who hurts who?"

It may be PG13... but I don't think I would have even noticed til it was over if I hadn't know before. I think it would have been one of those moments when it clicks for you and you think... whoa... I don't think he said 'fuck' in this movie.

I am happy to say, that in a summer of sequels, finally we have one that delivers the goods.

Thank you Maggie Q for the best fight scene in an American action movie since... I can't remember.

And Justin Long did great. Hitman did perfect for his slick programmer bad guy role. He's no Hans, but what bad guy in an action movie has been that cool since?

I am definitely going to watch it again.

He says that you have a constant lock on where everyone is and what is at stake.

He also says no jumpy editing.

Too many action films fall flat on the basis that you don't really know what is going on in an action scene. This takes away any tension.

It's easy having lots of blood and explosions, it is much harder making an effective action scene.

2. Total Recall

3. Face/Off

4. Terminator 2: Judgement Day

5. The Matrix

That's off the top of my head.

Worst part of the film was the faux drama created by lines like, "Tell me when it's 20 percent downloaded" or "Check the USB cable...is it plugged in? Oh, it's firewire? Phew."

There was one scene here it sort of reminded me of Ghostbusters, the street scenes with passing fire engines etc, and no sooner did I think that when guys in shiny Hazmat suits climbed out of a vehicle, looking like the Ghostbusters.

DH4 was a good time at the movies.

If the type of action in Casino Royale can be made into a balls out action movie it would be amazingly intense.

That is the type of movie DH4 should be. The type which redefines the genre.

I'll be happy with villans aas long as they keep the hacker talk to a mininmum

Imagine how good DK will be if this simple fault is sorted out.

Like I said before about LFODH, I'd rather well done PG13 action which clearly establishes what is going on in relation to what and has actuall tension than blood soaked action with swearing which you can't tell wha tis going on and lacks any tension.

I'm going to get hell for this but the trailer for John Rambo showed lots of gore but it didn't look like good action. It looked like all the bad guys will just stand there and Rambo will shoot them. It will just be a montage of violent deaths rather than any intense well constructed action.

Still don't understand people who watch movies on their computer in shitty quality that some guy has filmed in the cinema.

Not really watching the film are you, just a rough approximation of the film.

Kind of like seeing a painting on a postage stamp.

What was with Venom just bumping into Sandman down an alley and in a 10 second conversation they had joined forces and then suddenly cuts to MJ being trapped in a car with no explanation as to how she got there.

I swear with an extra 20 minutes that film could have been on par with Spidey 2.

The first hour and a half was brilliant. Loved the dance scene, Mj and Harrys cooking date, was all just really fun and had real heart.

It looked like the action in Rambo 3, essentially just a montage of people getting shot and exploding.

Gory but no tension what-so-ever.

If Vern is right then the action in LFODH is much better.

I miss the swearing but action doesn't really need blood to work.

I think Rami's heart was still in it but he just couldn't fit it all into the length of the film.

The whole lot spread out over 2 films would have been better.

One thing about the film was that every second was put to use. There was no point where I felt even slightly bored.

If you think about how crazy and over the top the fire hose bit was in DH in the 80's or the ejector seat bit in DH2 in the 90's these are no more unbelievable.

Times have changed to the oint that if something like the fire hose scene was done now it would be considered quite understated rather than the biggest action stunt of all time as it was viewed in the 80's.

Next year is going to rock with Dark Knight, Iron Man, Incredible Hulk and Indy 4. I know 3 of them are sequals but at least DK and Hulk are not 3rd instalments and any summer with Speilberg is a good summer.

I can gurantee though that even if all them films get perfect reviews they will not make as much money as the films of this summer.

In 2005 hollywood made less money than ever or something. The press said it was because people didn't go the cinema any more or the films that year where rubbish but the real reason was that the films where better than usual.

War of the Worlds, Batman Begins and Sin City where all brilliant films but not brilliant popcorn fodder.

Batman was the big summer movie but it was too inteligent and not simple enough to draw in the same crowds as a combination of Spidey 3, shreck 3, Pirates 3 and TF.

Funny how the better the films released means probably less money for hollywood.

Hopefully next year will prove this theory right.

I saw the movie.

It was exactly the turd I thought it would be from the previews...Die Hard 2 edited for television.

Kevin Smith as a hacker actually didn't ruin the movie.

The studio execs, the writer, the director, and Tim Olyphant ruined the movie

Yet Tim O. is the same fuckwad that Kevin Smith publicly said he thought he was going to have to hit over the head with a chair during the making of "Catch and Release". (I have it on videotape!) This photo screams "SELL-OUT"!  Fuck Kevin Smith.

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I had little desire to see the Hitman movie when I saw the trailer online yesterday and again before Live Free or Die Hard.  Now I have ZERO desire to ever see anything with Tim Olyphag ever again.

Problems with LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD:

-chopped up action to cut out gore and confuse the audience by ruining visual logic of what's happening on screen.  I couldn't tell that McClane shot himself at the end.

-grossly retarded & unrealistic scenarios...not just with the bogus computer hacking (you can't hack with a Mac or Nokia PDA), but with the fucking fighter jet at the end.  WTF?!

-Olyphag is the worst Die Hard villian EVER!  His career is over for me, because I'm not watching anything else with this guy ever.  He was a better villian in Scream 2.  Hell, he was a WAY better villian in The Girl Next Door!

-Lucy McClane.  Mary Elizabeth Winstead was terrible in this movie too, but even she was a better villian than Olyphant when she was in Sky High.  Hell, she was way better in that movie.  I wanted to fuck her when I watched Sky High.

-and the number #1 HUGE fucking problem with this movie...the whole time I kept asking myself, "Who gives a shit?"

I give it 1.5 stars out of a possible 4, and that's being generous.

To compare it to another fourth film in a franchise, "It's almost Batman & Robin bad".

My stars for the other Die Hard movies...

DIE HARD - 4 stars

DIE HARD 2: DIE HARDER - 2 stars

DIE HARD with a Vengeance - 3 stars

LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD - 1.5 stars

P.S.  Fuck you Bruce Willis.  You let me down "John McFuckinClane"

Nite all

Paul Verhoeven, John McTiernan, James Cameron, James McTeigue, Zack Snyder, Francis Lawrence, Alfonso Cuarón

I will say this, though, the reviewers here who said the PG-13 hack job was obvious are correct. You can tell there are parts where the characters originally launched F-bombs, but it's been changed. The term "crucified" is used twice in close proximity by two characters in two locations as a metaphor for someone taking blame for something, and you can tell one of the uses (most likely the latter) was originally "They fucked me" or something instead of "They crucified me for it." But even this somewhat choppy editing wasn't enough to spoil anything for me. The action set pieces here come fast and often enough, and are original enough, to keep the adrenaline high. I want to see this again, like now.

Yippee!

I liked that you pointed out the highs AND lows. So, thanks again, buddy.

Besides, it's a fucking movie. I haven't heard any of those whining about how stupid the latest film is bitch about him strolling across a floor covered in broken glass, and then somehow managing to continue running around to save the day. That shit hurts. He's never been anything less than a super-regular guy. Anyone who says anything else is delusional.

The fight between McClaine and Maggie Q was great. Sure the bitch was acting like a fucking invincible terminator, but whatever. It was a good sequence.

This movie kicks Emo Spidey's ass... I may see it again. Goes to show you how a 90's throwback can be better than Pirates and Crying Superheroes.

I'm not happy that people who haven't watched this keep saying how much of a POS it is and how dissapointed they are in it. The movie is exactly the way Bruce discribed... it kicked ass and was the best since the original. You know, after 20 years, did it occur to any of you that maybe Bruce doesn't care to play in the same movie over and over and he actually really likes the take Wiseman took on this. I think that is exactly how he felt. After 2 mediocre at best sequels, finally a Die Hard I left the theater feeling happy I watched.

Dude what? Lethal Weapon is one of the toughest movies of all time, and the Lethal Weapon is Riggs himself, but the forth film is little more than an ensemble action-comedy that brought in Jet Li as it's only redeeming asset. Seriously, watch the first and then the forth and then say that the two films belong in the same series. Personally, I think LFODH should've been the first sequel as 2 and 3 are just not as good.

The only one's really complaining are the one's who are taking some stand against turning R rated series into PG13. I understand. But now the movie is out and it kicks ass and missing out on it just to stand up for an R rating is just foolish at this point. It's not like Die Hard movies are important as anything but a good time. Die Hard 4 was a good time. I'm glad to know that Vern has the balls to say what he really thinks for good or bad. I'm really glad that Die Hard kicked my ass. In fact. Think I'll go watch it again right now.

Rent this on DVD.  (DO NOT BUY IT!)

And the ONLY reason to rent it...is so you can put to rest your morbid curiosity of how much they FUCT UP a DIE HARD movie. 

"Some people might say" that the positive reviews on this page are by idiots, kids, and/or FOX STUDIO PLANTS! 

Rupert Murdoch is a Republican lapdog of Satan.  Watch this movie for FREE!

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Instead, watch this FREE video of Bruce Campbell AND the former roid-rager Macho Man Randy Savage!

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P.S. I shot the interview with Savage back in 2001 so he still had muscles...since then there's been reports he's a shell of his former self...my theory is his doctor probably strongly advised that his old ass give up "the juice".

P.P.S.  I don’t like the “In McClane We Trust” tagline.  I find it inappropriate.  I would have felt that something like “Red, White, and McClane” to be more fun and less sacrilegious.

I've seen four movies in two days: yesterday was "Live Free or Die Hard" and "La Vie En Rose," today was "Eagle vs. Shark" and "Black Sheep." In order, I like them thusly: LFoDH and Rose tied for first, Black Sheep, and then Eagle a distant fourth, though it was cute as hell. So if DH4 can tie a movie about one of my favorite singers, then it must not suck too much.

It's not fair all I do at work is post here anyway, so someone should pay me for it.

After they knock out phone communications, how can Justin Long speak to OnStar or whatever to get the car started????

After the terrorists BLOW UP the power grid, how can they turn the power back ON in Lucy McClane's elevator???

Why does a trained F-35 pilot use the plane like a garrotte? It's not a close range weapon, dickhead, you don't have to sneak up on the truck so that you have to dodge freeway debris. Fire 5 missles from a mile out, hell a hundred yards out, then go home and call it a day. Imbecile and horrible shot. Retarded.

And why does the government have a back-up plan to divert all national info to one central location in case of a terrorist attack, but fails to plan for ARMED FUCKING GUARDS to protect that info??? Oh, yeah...fucking Bush.

Oh, and in one review here (Quint? Capone?) they were bitching about the lack of blood in the "you-know-it-when-you-see-it" scene , which I assume is when the henchman fell into the I-don't-know-what-the-fuck-the y-are spinning blades of death. In defense of Die Hard: I believe he was frozen by a blast of Nitrogen, so he just kind of crumbled like an ice cube. Hence, no geyser.

Except maybe Vern...

The tunnel scene was awesome... very cool as the lights went out with cars coming in all directions and then Long takes off and McLane screams, "No!".

The fight scenes were great, especially between him and Maggie Q ("Enough of this kung fu shit" made the theater roar as he beat the shit out of this chick and even ripped her hair out). The elevator shaft was awesome.

But I'll admit, the jet scene was just stupid. Didn't need to be there at all. But because all of the other action sequences and fight scenes were great, I easily let that go.

They really nailed the McClane character again too. Glad there wasn't some big explanation to what he's been doing the last 12 years. He was a wisecracking survivor like the first Die Hard and even the second (second wasn't that great overall... but they had the character of McClane done perfectly... everything else was hit or miss... while DH3 didn't really have the character of McClane down, mostly because it wasn't a McClane script to start off with).

Long was surprisingly good. The daughter filled the void of Holly and had two great lines that played very well as the daughter of McClane.

Olyphant was hit or miss. I actually think he got better after the second half of the movie started. The line "Come on, say something funny.." was classic. The henchmen were just as good as the ones in all of the other flicks.

The score was good, with shades of the original in there throughout.

The Bad?? Kevin Smith. It just didn't play like it should have and it's his fault. Should have been someone like Steve Buscemi. The jet scene as mentioned before was bad. But that's about it.

PG-13? Only thing I didn't like was the editing and looping at times. They shot an R flick obviously. So the cuts at times made the movie not flow as well as the original. The looping was bad so many times too. Just fucked with the flow.

It's the best overall sequel in my opinion. Loved it and I have an even bigger reason to get the DVD IF they decide to do the uncut version.

Regularfacetoht, you're welcome, twat.

ASnd take a look at the numbers the guy generates. Sure, most of us dislike the product his name appears on, but as a director he makes money. According to Box Office Mojo, films he has directed have earned $774,400,400. His average gross per is $129,100,00. Those are respectable numbers. (This is a valid place for a discussion of box office.) Director's are hired because of what they bring to the project. Bay brings bankability. And while he's made a couple of films I can watch and enjoy, I think most of what he's done is dreck. But if I had to make a film about NASCAR drivers saving the world, damn straight he'd be my guy.

Which begs the question: why hasn't there been a "NASCAR drivers save the world" movie yet? Everything else has been done, why not that. I bet it'd be a big hit.

I do have to agree that the scene with the jet is not quite right... but, the rest of the way... just recast Kevin Smith's role, as he only served to distract from the flow of the story. Even the Mac kid came off better than Silent Bob. Also, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, wasn't too bad as Lucy McClane. I was afraid her character would be stupid; but she did a good job of echoing Bonnie Bedelia as Holly in the first two films.

Three movies later, his indestructibility has become something of a joke, and McLane has morphed into a de facto superhero, sure to survive every chopper crash and five-vehicle pile-up.

The first movie centered on how much punishment McLane could absorb - now, virtually invincible, he's become a smirking inflictor of pain, and the movie has a weird sadistic edge.

As for McLane's famous resilience and resourcefulness, they're now superpowers."

You guys who say Willis sold out with this movie. You're such full of shit apoligists. He sold out when he made 2 and 3. Like he's been saying. Finally he got to make another great Die Hard movie. I hope he makes another with Wiseman.

For the record... if the bullshit pressure for a PG13 movie has eased and we get an R movie for 5, I'll be as pleased as everyone else. But as far as sequels go for Die Hard... this is the first one I feel like is a worthy successor to the first.

Bruce Willis was pissed about the PG13 and he's gotten over it. Dudes. Get over it. If Willis can, so can you. You guys act like you own the fucking story. It's not your fucking story. It's Willis' franchise. The movie wasn't Die Hard 1 but thank god it wasn't Die Hard 2 or 3 either.

Think boxing. Without nthe establishing shots of the ring, the audience, the ref, and the entrance of the fighters, we lose all sense of context. If you cut immediately to fists and bloody noses, while you might some exciting visuals, they mean nothing to us.

I think the world of the Nolan Bros, and I agree with many who complain about the fight scenes in Batman Begins. It's indicative of the trend toward the bullshit MTV-style of filmmaking. Very few filmmakers understand how to put together a film any more. I don't care about intentions; I care about execution. And the fight scenes in BB are poorly executed, in my opinion.

I don't argue your right to your opinion, but I also don't cut a movie like BB a break when it fails in certain regards. I can forgive DH4 its sins. It's like complaining that fire burns. But BB has a lofty pedigree, and I expect Nolan to do his homework and stage fights properly. There is a grammar of film, and his staging of certain scenes in BB made him look cinematically illiterate.

As for pissing on good movies, if it's good (as BB is), it can certainly stand up to some pissing and moaning from someone like me. I have complaints with some of Shakespeare's later plays, but I don't see his reputation taking a hit because of that. Nor does my criticism dim my appreciation of what I'm discussing. If anything, if something warrants debate of this nature, it obviously has merits on which it can stand. I don't see us debating the failings of MAC and Me or Lifeforce.

Comparing fight choreography to ballet is a pretty valid comparison. If it seems a bit too girly for you, sorry. I have a news flash for you: those fight scenes are fake. There's no such thing as Batman. He's fake. Everything in BB is staged for the camera. Yes, it's all scripted. Just like the freakin' ballet.

No. 2 went to Fox's action-packed Live Free Or Die Hard starring Bruce Willis. Expect a weekend in the $31 mil to $32 mil ranges and a 5-day total release of mid to high $40s for this 4th version of the John McClane franchise."