“Live Free or Die Hard may work better for an audience that doesn't know much about the series is than it will for Die Hard die hards, who will be wondering who that impersonator is and what he did with the real John McClane. The original Die Hard came out of nowhere to blitz the 1988 summer box office. The fourth installment arrives with a weight of expectations that Atlas would have trouble shouldering and, when the dust settles in September, it's unlikely that Live Free or Die Hard will be one of this year's big success stories.”

—  James Berardinelli

Review http://www.reelviews.net/php_review_template.php?identifier=310 of Live Free or Die Hard (2007). <br class="br">Two-and-a-half star reviews

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American film critic 1967

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