GELSON HERRERA BSIT 3-A

DIE HARD 4 MOVIE REVIEW

FULL CAST AND CREW
Directed by:
Len Wiseman

Writing Credits (WGA)

Mark Bomback -screenplay

Mark Bomback - Story

David Marconi - Story

John Carlin - Article

Roderick Thorp – Certain original characters

Produced by
Stephen J. Eads ... co-producer (as Stephen James Eads)

Michael Fottrell... producer

Arnold Rifkin ... executive producer

William Wisher ... executive producer Music by

Marco Beltrami

Cinematography by
Simon Duggan ... director of photography Film Editing by

Nicolas De Toth Casting By

Deborah Aquila

Tricia Wood
Production Design by
Patrick Tatopoulos

Art Direction by
Beat Frutiger

James Hegedus

Troy Sizemore ... supervising art director

Set Decoration by
Robert Gould

Costume Design by
Denise Wingate

Makeup Department
Scott Cameron ... key hair stylist

Zoltan Elek ... makeup artist

Edouard F. Henriques ... makeup department head: second unit (as Ed Henriques)

Janice Kinigopoulos ... key hair stylist: Baltimore

Sandra Linn Koepper ... key makeup artist: Baltimore

Lori McCoy-Bell ... hair department head: second unit (as Lori McCoy Bell)

Gerald Quist ... makeup department head

Toni-Ann Walker ... hair department head (as Toni Walker) Production Management

Vincent Agostino ... unit production manager: second unit

Steve Barnett ... post-production supervisor

Mitchell E. Dauterive ... production supervisor (as Mitchell Dauterive)

Michael Fottrell... unit production manager

Nina Kostroff-Noble ... unit production manager: Baltimore

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 CAST
Bruce Willis - John McClane Tony Colitti - Chief Hazmat Agent

Timothy Olyphant - Thomas Gabriel Tim DeZarn - Police Sergeant (as Tim deZarn)

Justin Long - Matthew 'Matt' Farrell Kurt David Anderson ... Miller

Maggie Q - Mai Linh Matt O'Leary - Clay

Cliff Curtis - FBI Deputy Director Miguel Nadine Ellis - Teller

Bowman
Ethan Flower - Trader
Jonathan Sadowski - Trey
Nick Jaine - Phone Guy
Andrew Friedman - Casper
Tim Russ - Chuck Summer
Kevin Smith - Frederick 'Warlock' Kaludis
Joe Gerety - Jack Parry
Yorgo Constantine - Russo
Edward James Gage - On Duty PP Operator
Cyril Raffaelli - Rand
David Walrod - Deli Customer
Chris Palermo - Del (as Christopher Palermo)
Edoardo Costa - Emerson
Mary Elizabeth Winstead - Lucy Gennaro
John Reha - Slacker Kid
McClane
Yancey Arias - Agent Johnson
Sung Kang - Raj
Rick Cramer - MP Rodriguez
Zeljko Ivanek - Agent Molina
Vito Pietanza - D.C. Cop
Christina Chang - Taylor
Dennis Depew - D.C. Cop
Jake McDorman - Jim
Howard Tyrone Ferguson - D.C. Cop
Rosemary Knower - Mrs. Kaludis
John Lacy - EMT
Gerald Downey - Hoover Agent
Diana Gettinger - FBI Dispatcher
Allen Maldonado - Goatee
Melissa Knowles - Freeway Reporter
Jim Cantafio - Deli Owner

Chris Ellis - Scalvino (as Chris Ellis Jr.)

Regina McKee Redwing - Nearby Agent

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Production Companies
-Twentieth Century Fox (presents) (as Twentieth Century Fox)

-Dune Entertainment (made in association with)

-Ingenious Film Partners (produced in association with)

-Cheyenne Enterprises

-Wintergreen Productions

Filming Locations
E Lexington St & N Holliday St, Baltimore, Southwest Marine - 985 South Seaside Avenue,
Maryland, USA Wilmington, Los Angeles, California, USA

Baltimore, Maryland, USA (studio)

Camden, New Jersey, USA Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Fairplex - 1101 West McKinley Avenue, West 4th St at Lower Grand Ave, Los Angeles,
Pomona, California, USA California, USA

N Calvert St & E Fayette St, Baltimore, (Tunnel toolbooths/entrance)

Maryland, USA
S Flower St under W 4th St, Los Angeles,
Diamond Ranch High School, Pomona, California, USA
California, USA
(McClane & Matt emerge from freeway tunnels
(Social Security Administration building - then hotwire a car)
exterior)
4th St Bridge, Los Angeles, California, USA
Hahn Plaza - Trousdale Parkway & Childs Way,
(McClane lands helicopter)
University of Southern California, Los Angeles,
California, USA 105 Freeway, Los Angeles, California, USA
(Rutgers scene) (Chase sequence with McClane driving a big rig)
20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Imperial Highway, El Segundo, California, USA
Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA
(Chase sequence with McClane driving a big rig)
(studio)
Los Angeles Center Studios - 450 S. Bixel Street,
Los Angeles Center Studios - 450 S. Bixel Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA
Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA
(studio)
(FBI Washington DC Building - exterior)
 Los Angeles International Airport - 1 World Stage 12, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City
Way, Los Angeles, California, USA Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

(Visible in the background during Big Rig chase Santa Clarita, California, USA
sequence)
Kendall Alley, Pasadena, California, USA
Lower Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California,
(McClane and Matt in alley after the cellphone
USA
networks go down)
(Tunnel sequence)
4th Street Bridge, Los Angeles, California, USA
Pasadena, California, USA
(McClane lands helicopter)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Lower Grand Tunnel, Los Angeles, California,
Redondo Beach, California, USA USA

Los Angeles County Fairgrounds, California, USA

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SYNOPSIS
Computer hacker Matt Farrell (Justin Long) finishes work on a new program and sends it to Mai Linh
(Maggie Q), who advises her boss and lover, Thomas Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant), that they can now
proceed with their operation. Gabriel's operation begins with orders to kill the hackers he hired,
including Farrell. This involves using a virus he has implanted that detonates wired explosives attached
to the hackers' computers when they press the delete key, and commencing the initial stages of a
computer attack on US government networks.

Meanwhile, a young couple is making out in a car at Rutgers University in New Jersey. New York City
Detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) breaks it up; the girl turns out to be his estranged daughter Lucy
(Mary Elizabeth Winstead). She leaves in a huff, refusing to acknowledge her father's last name but
calling herself instead by her mother's maiden name, Gennero. Simultaneously, the FBI command
center's computers are momentarily disrupted, leading Deputy Director Bowman (Cliff Curtis) to order a
roundup of all the hackers who could conceivably have been involved. McClane is sent to pick up Farrell
in Camden, and his arrival interrupts the hacker just before he performs the operation which would
detonate his computer. Gabriel's assassins, who had the apartment under surveillance to confirm
Farrell's execution, open fire. McClane kills several thugs who enter the apartment. Debris from the
shootout sets off the explosion of Farrell's computer, destroying the apartment. McClane and Farrell
race down the fire escape, McClane killing various henchmen on the way. The high-strung Farrell is
astonished by McClane's calmness during the ordeal. McClane tells him they're driving to Washington
DC.

As McClane makes it to Washington, D.C. with his charge, Gabriel sabotages the nation's network of
traffic signals, rail transport and air traffic control. Chaos on the roads ensues. Gabriel also forces the
evacuation of numerous federal buildings with a false anthrax alarm, with some of his men infiltrating a
Maryland facility by posing as a hazmat cleanup team to sneak in and kill the guards.

After arriving at the temporary FBI office, Farrell recognizes the pictures of the dead hackers on the wall,
but denies knowing who they are. Gabriel broadcasts a message threatening the nation, using spliced
video clips of the last twelve presidents, and then sabotages the nation's financial systems.

Farrell and McClane are redirected by the FBI to the Department of Homeland Security so that Farrell
can be interrogated. While they are on their way, Gabriel begins downloading a huge quantity of
significant data from the Maryland facility onto his own computers. McClane, Farrell, and their FBI
escort attempt to contact the police to have a route opened for them, but have their radio
communication intercepted by Gabriel and Linh, who direct them to an ambush. McClane suspects their
communication has been intercepted, so he tests Linh by asking her about a certain police radio code
and when she says they've had to dispatch all units to this type of call, which McClane reveals then is
actually the code for publicly naked people, exposing her.

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Gabriel gets on the radio and advises McClane he knows everything about him, wipes out his financial
portfolio, and offers him a bribe to kill Farrell; McClane refuses. McClane and Farrell attempt to evade
the ensuing ambush, but are set upon by a helicopter. McClane and Farrell escape the ambush in a
police car, and are chased into a tunnel by the helicopter. Gabriel opens the traffic on both sides of the
tunnel, sandwiching our heroes in a massive pileup in the middle. McClane, furious and cursing at nearly
being killed (again), drives squad car straight out of the tunnel and jumps at the last second before
launching the car up a toll barrier into the helicopter, killing most of the thugs; the one survivor
mistakenly tells Gabriel that their targets have been killed.

McClane and Farrell escape on foot, but as they try to contact the FBI via cell phone, they discover that
Gabriel has also sabotaged the telecommunications networks. Gabriel then takes over the nation's
television signals, and broadcasts the demolition of the U.S. Capitol building; Bowman and McClane
each run into the street for a clear view, and see that the footage was faked. Farrell admits that he
recognized some of the dead hackers from their pictures, and that he innocently wrote some code that
may be being used in this computer attack, a "fire sale", a three-stage plan to cripple the United States,
beginning with attacks on its transportation and financial infrastructures, which have already been
accomplished. The third stage will be to take out the power grid; it cannot be done remotely but
requires intervention at the actual physical plants. Farrell confesses that he had always viewed hacking
as harmless pranks, but is now horrified by the actual damage and suffering caused; he reconfigures the
cell phone to use a different network to allow them to communicate.

McClane and Farrell commandeer an abandoned car, however the security system will not allow the car
to be started by anyone but the owner. By pretending to be the son of its owner in a medical
emergency, Farrell gets the car's OnStar system to remotely start it for them. They set off for the main
power hub in West Virginia which controls the Eastern seaboard. Farrell, who tends to avoid taking
action by citing numerous minor medical conditions and phobias, admits to McClane that he doesn't feel
capable of heroism.

Linh and a group of henchmen, disguised as FBI agents, meanwhile, have entered the power station,
killed the guards and taken over the facility. As they commence shutdown procedures, McClane and
Farrell arrive. Their presence is detected, and henchmen are dispatched to kill them. McClane and
Farrell fight their way to the station's command center, McClane fights Linh, and Farrell manages to
abort the shutdown sequence. McClane finally kills Linh by driving a truck into her and down an elevator
shaft, where the truck explodes at the bottom. Farrell saves McClane by killing one thug, knocking him
from behind down the shaft. Seeing that the shutdown hasn't taken place yet, Gabriel calls Linh's cell
phone. McClane answers and tells Gabriel that his plan has been foiled and Linh killed. Enraged, Gabriel
redirects all the natural gas in the pipelines to converge on the power station. Farrell sees the plan and
he and McClane take shelter just before the station explodes. Gabriel once again believes the pair to be

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dead. The destruction of the station causes a massive power blackout over Washington and much of the
Eastern seaboard. Lucy McClane is caught in an elevator in the blackout.

Farrell and McClane decide to visit "The Warlock" (Kevin Smith) in Baltimore, who Farrell describes as an
"Internet Jedi." Traffic being a nightmare, McClane chooses to fly the helicopter that Linh and her
henchmen had used to arrive at the power station. McClane reveals he had a few chopper lessons to
overcome his own fear of flying, but never completed the course; they have a rough landing in
Baltimore. Meanwhile, Gabriel and a few select henchmen kill his other remaining computer engineers
to eliminate witnesses and, travelling light, set out in a semi-trailer with a mobile computer command
center in the back.

The Warlock lives in his mother's basement where he has set up his own "command center" -- an
impressive collection of computers running on his own generators, interspersed with geek memorabilia.
The Warlock is suspicious of the police, but reluctantly agrees to help. He reveals that Gabriel was
formerly a highly-placed FBI computer security director, responsible for building much of the system,
who discovered its vulnerabilities to attack. When Gabriel brought these vulnerabilities to the attention
of his supervisors, ultimately interrupting a meeting of the Joint Chiefs to do so, he was denounced and
publicly humiliated. The Warlock tells Farrell that he has been examining the type of code he was hired
to write, and that it is only being used at one facility - the one in Maryland, which is still running and
drawing massive power loads. Gabriel is alerted to Warlock's intrusions; he traces the intrusion back to
Warlock's basement command center, and commandeers Warlock's computer and web cam to
communicate with McClane. He shows McClane images of his daughter in the elevator, and advises that
he is going to get her. McClane sets off to find and kill Gabriel; he tells Farrell to stay behind, but Farrell
insists on helping him. Under the ruse of a rescue, Lucy is brought to Gabriel at the data facility; a chip
off the old block, she fights all the way before being tied up.

McClane and Farrell communicate with Bowman and show him an image of Gabriel. Bowman is
dismayed; he tells them that the facility still running, part of the National Security Agency, was designed
by Gabriel as a failsafe in the event of an attack on the nation's infrastructure. The initial attack on the
FBI had triggered the download to that facility of all the financial data from stock markets, corporations,
and government agencies. Gabriel apparently intends to download this information onto mobile hard
drives, allowing him to undetectably siphon off billions of dollars.

McClane and Farrell head to the data facility, but Gabriel is alerted to their presence. Farrell realizes that
the code he wrote was designed to defeat the security at the last door to the facility's main databanks
and, slipping in as McClane distracts Gabriel's men, manages to encrypt all the data that Gabriel has
downloaded, making it useless to them without the decryption key which he alone knows. He is
subsequently captured by Gabriel's thug and brought to the control center where Lucy is also captive.
When he suggests to Lucy that she needs to be less confrontational with their heavily armed
adversaries, Lucy tells him he needs to show more bravery and resolve. McClane kills the various thugs

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sent to stop him, and communicates with Farrell via one of the thugs' walkie-talkies. Gabriel attempts to
talk McClane down but is unable to do so. He puts Lucy on the radio, to "talk some sense" into her
father, but she aids him by telling him that there are only five bad guys left. The bad guys escape in two
vehicles: Gabriel, two thugs, and the captives in an emergency services van, and one thug in a semi-
trailer carrying their portable computer control center. McClane jumps onto the back of the semi-truck
as it leaves the facility, climbs to the cab, shoots the driver through the door, and gives chase to the
remaining bad guys and their captives in the van. In the van, Gabriel orders Farrell to unlock the data,
but Farrell refuses, knowing that this is his only bargaining chip and that Gabriel will kill him once he has
the data back. Bowman orders an F-35 fighter plane dispatched to intercept the van after McClane
contacts him via Warlock's CB radio link.

Gabriel realizes they are being chased. He obtains the go codes for the fighter plane by accessing the
military's data banks, and impersonates military commanders to order the pilot to destroy the semi-
truck. The F-35 fires various missiles and artillery at the truck, causing McClane to break off his chase
and move to a ramp leading to a bridge. The F-35 virtually destroys the truck and a large portion of the
ramp. As the truck begins to slide backwards down the destroyed ramp, McClane falls out of the cab and
down the back of the ravaged trailer. The plane, now just next to the truck, is about to deliver the coup
de grace when it is damaged by a chunk of falling pavement. McClane falls onto the plane's wing. The
pilot ejects, and McClane slides down the spiralling plane and jumps onto another section of destroyed
ramp, sliding down the ramp as the jet crashes and explodes just behind him.

The van carring the bad guys and captives enters a warehouse. McClane pursues them. Gabriel orders
Farrell to enter the code to decrypt the information. Farrell refuses and is shot in the knee by Gabriel.
When Gabriel puts the gun to Lucy's head and says he will count to ten before killing her, Farrell gives in
despite her pleas to resist, and begins to enter the code. McClane arrives and kills one of the henchmen,
but is in turn shot in the shoulder by Gabriel. McClane dives behind a car, his gun on the ground near
Farrell. McClane goes for his gun but is grabbed by Gabriel from behind. Standing behind McClane,
Gabriel taunts him and tortures him by sticking his gun into the bullet wound in McClane's shoulder.
Lucy struggles with the thug holding her, shooting him in the foot before he recovers his grip on her.
Gabriel tells McClane that his epitaph will read "Always in the wrong place at the wrong time." McClane
replies that it might read "Yippee ki yay, mother-" and pulls the trigger, shooting himself through the
shoulder and killing Gabriel. Farrell has grabbed McClane's gun and shoots the other thug.

The FBI arrive and provide medical attention to McClane, Lucy, and Farrell. Farrell and Lucy separately
indicate to McClane their romantic interest in each other. Lucy indicates that, for today at least, she's a
McClane.

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REVIEWS AND REACTION
There were really a certain person ought to have their will and wants to do things that make the entire
state break down. This certain people do jobs through a high technology in order to do evil deeds not
imagining the result of it as they want it to be -- to be a miserable nation.

One of these situations is come from the movie die hard 4. The story plays by means of a high
technology computer based. They are using computers for communications, such for networks, radios
and exploding viruses to end lives. With that movie there are opportunities, weaknesses and strength
embodies.

From the aphorism that says “Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life
seems most challenging.” Has a correlation from the movie die hard 4. The opportunities that embodied
in the movie is that when John McClane has the allies who is a hacker Matt Farrell realizes to be biased
with John after all Gabriel the evil mastermind threaten him to kill. Moreover that is an opportunity for
John since Matt knows the code to abort the shutdown sequence and to evade the evil plan of Gabriel.
It seems most challenging because of the enraged of John to the criminal mastermind especially that
Lucy is in the hand of Gabriel.

“An attack on the vulnerable United States infrastructures begins to shut down the entire nation” and
when Farrell enter the code despite of Lucy’s pleas to resist, Farrell gives the code just for Lucy not to
shoot by a gun of Gabriel’s hand. These are the weaknesses shows in the movie. But John the father of
Lucy advances for just nothing to do but make things more to do for the resolution of the huge problem.

After all John has the strength for sacrificing himself even though he has been hit on his shoulder and
still trying to kill Gabriel. He has also a grave to utter Gabriel for saying “Yippee ki yay, mother”

It is true that loving your nation is like killing someone’s lives. The word is “Live Free of Die hard”.

In my opinion the movie was a great success. I was sitting on the edge of my seat from the first scene of
the movie until the end. I couldn't wait to see what would happen next. The movies storyline was quite
easy to follow which was great, considering the era when the movie was made.

The only let down was the quality of the camera work within the movie. The camera work could have
been a little better but I believe this was understandable due to the fact that the technology was not as
good then as it is now.

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The movie colour was dark but that is what I expected. I believe in most action films your do not
normally see bright colors because bright colors lighten the effect. It is normally dark when the power is
turned off and this was also the case in this movie. I believe the darkness added to the excitement level
of the movie. As I said above, the camera work wasn't really that good however under the
circumstances it was understandable.

The settings were very good. Everything was appropriate to the story and was very realistic. The director
did a great job and should be very pleased with the end product. I believe some scenes were a little
vague in some sections of the movie however quite specific in others.

The main character John McClane was played exceptionally well by Bruce Willis. I believe he didn't over
act, which is quite easy to do, in some action/thriller movies. Bonnie Bendelia who played Holly
Gennero-McClane in the movie also did a great job. I believe the part she had in the movie was very well
acted.

I believe all the actors were very good and suitable to the roles within the movie. I also think that they
portrayed their roles in a believable manner, which made the movie enjoyable to watch. I found most
characters likable in some way or another and some quite endearing. The director has done a great job
in directing the movie and also selection of actors for roles was outstanding.

There was no sound track of any real significance during this movie. I believe this however suits most
action-films, as it is not required. I believe by not having a sound track this was a great idea; it helped
your think and in my opinion kept me more intrigued.

I would recommend this movie to any hardcore action fanatics. Although if you were a great action
movie follower, you would most likely have already seen this movie. Even if you don't love action films,
this movie is still worthwhile seeing because it is a classic.

I believe this movie 'Die Hard' will be seen for many years to come because of the enjoyment value.

I would give this a 9 out of 10- it is superb.

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