Live Free or Die Hard

Live Free or Die Hard
Live Free or Die Hard
Directed by	Len Wiseman
Written by	Characters:; Roderick Thorp; Story:; Mark Bomback; David Marconi; Screenplay:; Mark Bomback
Produced by	Michael Fottrell; Arnold Rifkin executive; William Wisher executive ; Stephan J Eads
Starring	Bruce Willis; Timothy Olyphant; Justin Long; Mary Elizabeth Winstead; Maggie Q
Edited by	Nicolas De Toth
Music by	Marco Beltrami
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release dates	June 12, 2007 (Tokyo) ; June 27, 2007 (United States)
Running time	129 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$110 million
Box office	Domestic:; $134,529,403; Worldwide:; $383,109,500

Live Free or Die Hard (called Die Hard 4.0 outside of North America and also known as Die Hard 4) is a 2007 American action movie starring Bruce Willis and Justin Long. It is the fourth film in the Die Hard series

Release dates[change | change source]

Country	Premiere
Kuwait	26 June 2007
Bulgaria	27 June 2007
Canada	27 June 2007
Germany	27 June 2007
Denmark	27 June 2007
Estonia	27 June 2007
Egypt	27 June 2007
Finland	27 June 2007
Hungary	27 June 2007
Iceland	27 June 2007
Latvia	27 June 2007
Norway	27 June 2007
Serbia	27 June 2007
Russia	27 June 2007
Sweden	27 June 2007
United States	27 June 2007
Greece	28 June 2007
Malaysia	28 June 2007
Netherlands	28 June 2007
Portugal	28 June 2007
Slovakia	28 June 2007
Turkey	28 June 2007
Ukraine	28 June 2007
Cyprus	29 June 2007
India	29 June 2007
Japan	29 June 2007
Lithuania	29 June 2007
Romania	29 June 2007
Belgium	4 July 2007
France	4 July 2007
United Kingdom	4 July 2007
Hong Kong	4 July 2007
Indonesia	4 July 2007
Philippines	4 July 2007
Israel	5 July 2007
Singapore	5 July 2007
Thailand	5 July 2007
Ireland	6 July 2007
Mexico	6 July 2007
Panama	6 July 2007
Poland	6 July 2007
Malta	18 July 2007
South Korea	19 July 2007
Pakistan	20 July 2007
Taiwan	20 July 2007
Croatia	2 August 2007
Slovenia	2 August 2007
Brazil	3 August 2007
Kazakhstan	4 August 2007
Australia	9 August 2007
Bolivia	9 August 2007
New Zealand	9 August 2007
Uruguay	10 August 2007
Venezuela	10 August 2007
Argentina	16 August 2007
Chile	16 August 2007
Colombia	17 August 2007
Spain	7 September 2007
Italy	26 October 2007
China	22 November 2007

Plot[change | change source]

The movie starts with John McClane trying to talk to his daughter Lucy. He pulls her boyfriend out of the car. An angry Lucy goes up to her apartment. Afterwards, the police call McClane and ask him to pick up a kid named Matt Farrell. However, when McClane goes down there, mercenaries attack the two. McClane manages to fight them off and gets Farrell into the car.

Day breaks in Washington, D.C. The villain, Thomas Gabriel, launches his plan. He takes control over all of the things that help run the country, like traffic lights and transportation systems. He shuts down the FBI building and calls in an anthrax alert. He makes the lights go green and red very fast so that cars crash into each other. McClane and Farrell get out and walk to the FBI trailer outside. Farrell realizes that this is a "fire sale" – where everything being taken over by these hackers and it is called a fire sale because "everything must go."

McClane and Farrell then head to Middleton, Virginia, because some systems, like electricity, cannot be taken fully over with computers. However, Mai (Gabriel's girlfriend) is already at the plant and has taken over it. McClane attacks her and throws her to the ground and tells Farrell to put the system back up. Mai gets up and kicks him out of the building. McClane uses a car and rams her and they fight inside an elevator shaft. It ends when the car falls with Mai inside.

Farrell and McClane send a picture of Gabriel to the FBI, where they say that Gabriel was hired by them. Gabriel wanted tighter security, but they said no and fired him. Gabriel contacts the Middleton plant to ask what happened. He gets very angry when McClane tells him that Mai is dead and tells his hackers to send all the natural gas they can to the Middleton plant. He also finds Lucy and kidnaps her. The plant blows up and knocks all the power out in the nearby area.

McClane and Farrell take a helicopter to Baltimore, Maryland to meet another computer hacker who calls himself The Warlock. He finds out where Gabriel is – at the Social Security Administration building in Woodlawn. Before the government fired him, Gabriel had made a system; when there was a computer attack, all financial data would be downloaded into the computers there. One of Gabriel's men went down there and starts downloading the data early on in the movie.

Both McClane and Farrell head down there. Gabriel takes Farrell and escapes with the data before McClane can reach him. McClane gets into the truck behind Gabriel's car. Gabriel calls in a jet fighter to attack McClane. During the fight, the highway is destroyed, but McClane manages to jump off and slide to safety, while the pilot ejects from the plane.

He then fights Gabriel inside a warehouse. McClane is shot and he loses his gun. Gabriel puts him in an arm lock and orders his man to shoot Lucy. McClane presses the gun into his shoulder and fires, injuring himself, but killing Gabriel. Farrell wildly fires his gun to kill the man that is holding Lucy. The movie ends with the FBI swarming the area and taking Farrell and McClane to the hospital.