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hi sume…Live Free or Die Hard (released as Die Hard 4.0 outside North America) is the fourth installment in the Die Hard film series. It stars veteran actor Bruce Willis as John McClane, the hero of the first three films. The film takes place some 19 years after the first film, and sees McClane face a gang of virtual terrorists. The film’s American and Canadian release date was June 27th, 2007. The film was based on the 1997 article A Farewell to Arms written for Wired magazine by John Carlin.
Plot
The movie begins with criminal Mai Linh (Maggie Q) collaborating with computer hackers, exchanging payment for algorithms and code. The hackers are then killed in their homes by explosives set to go off when the Delete button is pressed on their keyboards. Only one hacker, Matthew Farrell (Justin Long), has yet to be killed.
Meanwhile, at one of the Rutgers University campuses, Lucy McClane (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) in engaged in a romantic interlude with a schoolmate, which is interrupted by her father, NYPD Police Detective John McClane (Bruce Willis). Lucy, angered at her father’s surveillance of her, storms off. McClane learns that Lucy is using her mother’s maiden name, Gennaro, and not McClane, an echo of of the first movie, when McClane learned that his estranged wife was doing the same. McClane receives instructions from his supervisor to pick up a known hacker, since an FBI system has recently seen a breach and is taking hackers into custody.
McClane goes to the home of the hacker, Matt Farrell, and takes him into custody. Five armed men then arrive, and when they see that the computer has not detonated, they go up to investigate. Rand (Cyril Raffaelli), a sniper, sprays the apartment with gunfire, but McClane and Farrell survive, and McClane dispatches most of the armed men in the process, escaping with Farrell. Two of the surviving thugs explain to their superior, Thomas Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant) that Farrell has escaped.
McClane brings Farrell to the FBI, specifically to Assistant Director Bowman (Cliff Curtis), in the midst of a shutdown of Washington D.C.’s traffic system initiated by the terrorists. The terrorists then initiate a stock market crash, wiping out the life savings of countless people. FBI Agent Johnson (Yancey Arias) orders Farrell taken into protective custody, but the terrorists locate the car and ambush it, but McClane again manages to dispatch the villains, at one point driving his car up a ramp and then fleeing it before it collides with the villain’s helicopter, destroying it. Rand believes that the two men were in the car and thus claims that both men are dead.
Bruce Willis as John McClane and Justin Long as Matt Farrell.McClane asks Farrell what the next logical move by the terrorists would be. Farrell says the major utilities can only be shut down manually on-site, and directs them to the Eastern United States power hub in West Virginia. During the drive, Farrell expresses exasperated disbelief at McClane’s seeming calm, and laments that he’s not like him. When McClane asks him what he means by this, Farrell says that he himself is not a hero, and cannot see himself ever doing the types of courageous things that McClane does.
Arriving at the hub they discover that the terrorists are already there. While Farrell tries to undo the damage done to the computer system, McClane engages the terrorists in hand-to-hand and vehicular combat, killing them. After discovering that McClane and Farrell are alive and that more of his henchmen are dead, Gabriel redirects the local natural gas lines to the hub. McClane and the Farrell barely escape with their lives as the pressure of the gas lines results in the explosion and destruction of the hub, knocking out power across the Eastern U.S. Seemingly out of options, Farrell convinces McClane that they should pay a visit to the Warlock (Kevin Smith), a hacker friend of Farrell’s, in order to get information on Gabriel.
McClane and Farrell arrive at the home of the Warlock, a thirty-something man who uses his mother’s basement, as his “command center”. After The Warlock had discovered that Gabriel had designed a new, more secure, security system for the US after 9/11, and therefore is intimately familiar with it. Although he claimed that the U.S. security system was not good enough, the authorities conspired to bring him down and spoil his reputation. Embittered, he decided to teach America a lesson, which is the “fire salehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_sale#Use_as_plot_device” currently in operation. Meanwhile, Gabriel then learns of a hacker inside his systems and he confronts McClane, via web cam. Gabriel has tracked down Lucy, who is trapped in an elevator shaft, and shows a video image of her to McClane. The Warlock tracks down Gabriel’s location, which turns out to be an NSA building, and the location of high-powered supercomputers containing all the country’s backup financial information (which Gabriel had designed). McClane and Farrell set out to rescue Lucy and stop Gabriel.
McClane and Farrell arrive at the base just as Lucy is being dragged in. Farrell tries to re-route the system while McClane fights off a Gabriel’s thugs. Gabriel and his men capture Farrell, but not before he has set up a security code preventing Gabriel from accessing the stolen financial records with which they amassed their money. Gabriel and his men flee in trucks with Lucy and Farrell, and McClane pursues. He contacts Warlock to ask him to patch him through to Bowman to inform him that Gabriel has left.
Gabriel uses his hacking abilities to pose as a Marine ground controller and commands a F-35 Lightning II jet to attack McClane’s truck, which he identifies as a criminal. The jet engages McClane, but McClane manages to escapes the truck, landing on the plane and jumping to safety onto the jet. During this process, the jet is damaged, and its pilot ejects. McClane then jumps to safety before the burning jet plummets toward him and is destroyed. McClane then follows Gabriel’s truck to a nearby warehouse.
At the warehouse, Gabriel orders Farrell to reverse his encryption, and when Farrell refuses, Gabriel shoots him in the leg. Farrell then complies. Before the decryption begins, however, McClane shows up and kills Trey (Jonathan Sadowski), Gabriel’s lead hacker, and a couple of thugs before taking a shot in the shoulder from another assailant. While Lucy is held hostage by one thug, Gabriel picks up McClane and holds him from behind, wanting him to watch the death of Farrell and Lucy. Meanwhile, Farrell, hiding, has picked up McClane’s gun and tries to toss another gun to McClane, but is foiled. Gabriel taunts McClane, prodding his wound with a gun. McClane presses the trigger, firing the gun, causing a bullet to go through his shoulder and into Gabriel’s heart, killing Gabriel instantly. Farrell then picks up McClane’s gun and shoots the thug holding Lucy, killing him. The FBI arrives.
Afterwards, Farrell sits in an ambulance. Having been given morphine, he makes a romantic query about Lucy, but McClane discourages him from even considering such a course of action, but recalling their earlier conversation about heroic types during their drive to West Virginia, McClane points out to Farrell that he has now engaged in the exact sort of daring act that he earlier claimed he could never do, and opines that he is now a hero himself. McClane returns to Lucy, who asks if Farrell expressed any romantic interest in her, much to McClane’s chagrin, as the ambulances drive off.