As you'd probably expect from a Die Hard movie, we start out with John McClane, jaded from his years of police work. The feds issue a request to the NYPD for a senior detective to go out and pick up a computer hacker, Justin Long, who is a suspect in some recent computer related shenanigans, and of course McClane is the man sent to do the dirty work.

This small errand turns out to be anything but simple, as McClane quickly finds himself being shot at by French assassins, diving out of the way of exploding computers, and narrowly surviving from high speed car chases.

All in all Live Free or Die Hard is your standard action fare taken up to the next level of ridiculous, but I'm sure you knew that when you saw the trailer of a police car hitting a helicopter. If it can explode it will. Even if it can't explode, it might. And when it does explode, it explodes in a very big way!

Fortunately, unlike most action movies, however, Live Free Die Hard doesn't just crap out generic characters. McClane's sarcastic attitude and all or nothing antics are maintained, but developed more thoroughly in this sequel. In one scene in particular, Willis and Long share a rather profound discussion of just why he does what he does that is both meaningful, but at the same time doesn't try to go so far as to make some sort of vast overreaching commentary on life. In short, its simple and to the point just like it should be, but just different enough to be interesting.

I was sort of surprised that a movie featuring Justin Long, and a ton of computers could avoid making at least one mac joke, but sadly there are none. On the plus side, for computer nerds there aren't any Hackers style 3D operating systems.

The movie does suffer a little bit from the last minute change from rated R to PG-13. Its not like its chopped to pieces, but there are some really obvious over dubs. For Die Hard fans, "yippie kai yeh mother..." *gunshot* just sorta walks the fence between hilarious and painful to watch.

If you're easily offended by the ridiculous, then this may not be the movie for you. Jets fly underneath underpasses, cars hit helicopters, and people survive the most insane falls you've ever seen. But if you are looking for a 130 minutes of fast paced entertainment then make sure to check it out.