One thing I do like: Willis looks like he's having fun in the ad. Loosened up, wisecracking Bruce has been absent from the screen for too long...instead we've had the morose, brooding Bruno. No thanks!

AndyDursin wrote:One thing I do like: Willis looks like he's having fun in the ad. Loosened up, wisecracking Bruce has been absent from the screen for too long...instead we've had the morose, brooding Bruno. No thanks!

Yup!

Variety review of the Arnold movie is just what I expected. A fun but thin B movie:

http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117948974/

Ninety-seven minute running time. The last time an action franchise where nearly every entry came in over the two-hour mark produced an installment this short, we got Quantum Of Solace.

Starting to feel like a Euro-made cheapie, isn't it? Which it kind of is. Huge comedown from running times of ALL the prior films.

I'm normally the guy who complains about overlong action/adventure movies, but barely ninety minutes sans credits? Imagine the first Die Hard shorn to that length.

Brings back memories of SUPERMAN IV, JAWS THE REVENGE and other late-franchise sequels whose running times were cut short, doesn't it? (I'd even throw POLTERGEIST II into that mix except that film was at least halfway decent).

Is there any truth to the rumor that Peter Jackson somehow got into the editing room last week and boosted the running time to 3 1/2 hours?

Isn't Peter working in another hour of outtakes for the home video version? Sheesh!!

Amazing this opened overseas last weekend and there are still no domestic reviews...a very poor sign. I might skip this Friday night and wait for video. The reaction of some people on Facebook who saw it overseas is generally bad from what little I've read.

I have a free ticket, so I'm seeing it regardless, but still...not one review on Rotten Tomatoes barely four days before the release date is troubling.

Especially when it's obviously been in the can and opened internationally in some markets -- it's not as if they're working on it up until the last minute the way some summer films usually are.

Just read a bad online review of the movie. I'm going to wait and see how this pans out. I can always watch it on disc later.

The funny thing is, I have the unrated cut of Live Free or Die Hard and I greatly prefer that version.

Funny thing about this series is they went from having a really good female lead in Bonnie Bedelia to none whatsoever. The third movie didn't even pretend to have one -- the girl was mute! -- and while Mary Elizabeth Winstead was brought onboard the 4th film, looks like this movie doesn't have any either except for her cameo. The banter between Willis and Bedelia was sorely missed in part 3 -- and she's still working, so what gives?

AndyDursin wrote:Funny thing about this series is they went from having a really good female lead in Bonnie Bedelia to none whatsoever. The third movie didn't even pretend to have one -- the girl was mute! -- and while Mary Elizabeth Winstead was brought onboard the 4th film, looks like this movie doesn't have any either except for her cameo. The banter between Willis and Bedelia was sorely missed in part 3 -- and she's still working, so what gives?

Willis has gone on record as saying he wants to do one more after A Good Day..., and not bringing back Bedelia for the supposedly final film in the series would be pretty unforgivable. McClane earned back the respect and affection of his daughter last time, and apparently his son in this new one, it'd only make sense to have him get back together with his ex-wife in the last film to bring the entire McClane clan together again. If the first three films were the receeding hairline/wifebeater undershirt trilogy, the second "trilogy" should be the Mr. Clean/I'm getting my wife and kids back one.