My wife and I went and saw this movie last night. In a word- "WOW".
If you like stuff blowing up, gunshots galore, fight scenes that almost never stop, wiseass movie characters, hi-tech futuristic improbable plots, buildings blowing up, interstate highways crashing down, crashing helicopters, jets and trucks.......then you'll like this movie. Well worth the money. Bruce Willis is Bruce Willis. The guy he is protecting (Justin Long, who starred in last summer's slacker comedy "Accepted" but who may be better known from the Apple TV ads in which he regularly appears- You know, the guy who says "I'm a Mac".....) does a good job at playing a computer nerd (go figure) and the movie has almost no intolerable slow spots. Lots of real stunts, and it doesn't rely on CGI (Movie computer tricks) to make it work. I know it has some, because no way did he really throw a car at a helicopter.....
It has a PG rating to appeal to a younger audience meaning lots of gunshot and explosive carnage (resulting in at least 25 people dying) but almost no cursing.
"Yippee Kie Yay Mother F***er" becomes simply "Yippee Kie Yay". Dead don't count but don't let junior hear the "F" word. That's a whole lot of nonsense.
If you don't like this kind of stuff, or if you are genetically predestined to like "girl movies" (you know, plots, crying, talking, substance stories), then this movie will probably piss you off.
On the other hand , my wife who is a BIG HUGE Girl movie watcher, liked it OK. Maybe because I took her?, but nonetheless she said she liked it ok. A girl stamp of approval.
Date night anyone? (Satisfies the need for female public activity and the movie doesn't suck at the same time- What a concept).
Overall B++, worth the money. Don't wait for the DVD, the action plays extremely well on the big screen with a good sound system.
Thankx- bigmike
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