In short: as far as summer blockbuster entertainment goes, Live Free or Die Hard was everything that Transformers should have been. Big, loud, funny, and — and this is a key point — believable in its implausibility. I’m honestly not sure how exactly they do it (though I’ve got a few guesses, and right at the top of the list are three things: decent screenwriting, decent direction, and a reliance on good old-fashioned physical stuntwork instead of a constant barrage of CGI), but no matter how silly the stunts get…and they do get silly…LFoDH manages to sell them and keep them just believable enough to hold onto the audience.
Prairie and I both came out of LFoDH with big grins, having thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. This one’s worth seeing.