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John McClane's finally lost all his hair, but he's still got his million mile stare<\/p><\/div>\n
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He Takes a Licking but Keeps on Ticking<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n[xrr rating=4\/5]<\/span><\/p>\nLive Free or Die Hard<\/em>. Starring Bruce Willis, Timothy Olyphant, Justin Long, Maggie Q, Cliff Curtis, Jonathan Sadowski, Andrew Friedman, Kevin Smith, Yorgo Constantine, Cyril Raffaelli, Chris Palermo, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Music by Marco Beltrami. Cinematography by Simon Duggan, A.C.S.\u00a0 Production design by Patrick Tatopoulos. Costume design by Denise Wingate. Edited by Nicholas DeToth. Screenplay by Mark Bomback. Story by Mark Bomback and David Marconi. Article \u201cA Farewell to Arms\u201d by John Carlin. Certain original characters by Roderick Thorp. Directed by Len Wiseman. (20th<\/sup> Century Fox, 2007, Color, 130 minutes. MPAA Rating: PG-13.)<\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s hard to believe that Bruce Willis\u2019s wisecracking NYPD detective John McClane has been absent from the big screen for a dozen years. With this blistering fourth installment of the Die Hard<\/em> series, Willis seems to be laying claim to the \u201clast man standing\u201d title in the action movie genre. Which is appropriate, because almost twenty years ago, Willis and director John McTiernan (who returns as producer on this one) practically invented the smartass tough-guy action flick with their spectacular Die Hard<\/em>, <\/em>a film that promised\u2014and delivered\u2014\u201cForty stories of sheer adventure!\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIn the original, ruthless villain Hans Gruber (played by a suave, menacing Alan Rickman) and his Eurotrash henchmen took over and terrorized an L.A. high-rise to loot the Nakatomi Corporation\u2019s heavily guarded vaults. Like clockwork, everything went according to plan\u2014except for one thing they didn\u2019t plan on: Hard-boiled New York police sergeant John McClane was in the building. McClane was visiting the City of Angels on Christmas Eve to salvage his marriage to wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia), who had accepted an executive position on the West Coast to advance in the corporate world. When the goons started taking hostages, McClane started taking back the building, playing a bloody game of cat-and-mouse with Gruber and his gang.<\/p>\n
What made Die Hard<\/em> an unexpected smash hit was McClane\u2019s sheer style<\/em>. The sardonic cop hunted down the criminals and picked them off one by one, tossing off sarcastic one-liners and four-letter words while laying waste to the building. Audiences thrilled to this rollercoaster ride of a movie, not only for its spectacular action scenes, but also because it didn\u2019t star a muscle-bound hero like Stallone or Schwarzenegger. Willis\u2019s McClane was a regular working stiff, a guy who made up for his lack of brawn with quick-witted common sense and uncommon resourcefulness, persevering when all options for survival seemed exhausted.<\/p>\nAs he raced against the clock to rescue the skyscraper\u2019s occupants, the no-nonsense McClane didn\u2019t have time to go by the book. Half his battles were against LAPD and federal bureaucrats who did little except to dither and throw procedural roadblocks in his path. His combination of decisive action and impudence resurrected a distinctively American hero type\u2014a throwback to Humphrey Bogart\u2019s wisecracking detective Sam Spade from The Maltese Falcon<\/em> and Clint Eastwood\u2019s supremely insubordinate San Francisco cop, \u201cDirty Harry\u201d Callahan. By movie\u2019s end, McClane had destroyed half the Nakatomi Tower, killed all the bad guys, saved the day, and won back the girl. What more could we have asked for?<\/p>\nDie Hard\u2019s <\/em>premise\u2014\u201cthe wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time\u201d\u2014has been copied numerous times since, in such movies as Speed<\/em> and Passenger 57<\/em>. It\u2019s become so formulaic, in fact, that when the third installment in the franchise, Die Hard: With a Vengeance<\/em>, was released in 1995, the pairing of Willis with Samuel L. Jackson came off more like Lethal Weapon 3-1\/2<\/em> than a sequel. The fine line between action and comedy, navigated so deftly in the first two films, veered too much into silliness in the third, with the racial-tension subplot between the two leads undermining whatever suspense the movie aspired to build. That, plus Jeremy Irons\u2019s hammy performance as Hans Gruber\u2019s vindictive brother Simon, made for an anticlimactic motion picture.<\/p>\nThankfully, with Live Free or Die Hard<\/em>, director Len Wiseman delivers a genuine edge-of-your-seat action movie of the kind that\u2019s been missing from the big screen since Willis still had a head full of hair.<\/p>\n\u00a0This go-around, John McClane is back and badder than ever. He\u2019s still a formidable S.O.B., still serving On The Job in New York, still barely staying on the wagon, still divorced, and still estranged from the kids. That estrangement doesn\u2019t stop him from tailing daughter Lucy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) at her Rutgers campus in the dead of night and forcibly removing her boyfriend from her parked car when the fellow gropes too far below her neckline. (Not that McClane really needed to\u2014Lucy\u2019s tough enough to enforce her own borders, you see.)<\/p>\n
He gets a call to drive down to nearby Camden and serve a warrant on suspected computer hacker Matt Farrell (Justin Long) and bring him to FBI headquarters in Washington. Just as he\u2019s about to pick up his man, McClane gets pinned down in a hail of machine-gun fire from unknown assassins and barely manages to extricate Farrell.<\/p>\n
So the action begins. And the action doesn\u2019t let up for almost two solid hours. By the time the two get to D.C., we learn that Matt is one of eight hackers who had been recruited to write code for a mysterious employer with (unbeknownst to them) nefarious aims. Once they served their purpose, every one was slain\u2014except Farrell.<\/p>\n
As the sun rises, it\u2019s the Fourth of July\u2014and all hell breaks loose. The nation\u2019s transportation infrastructure goes haywire as all traffic signals turn green, causing cars, trucks, buses, and trains to collide. When McClane arrives to transfer his prisoner to FBI computer-security agents, he realizes that Farrell is the only one who grasps the method behind the madness grinding every metropolitan area to a standstill.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a fire sale,\u201d Farrell explains to McClane and FBI agent Bowman (Cliff Curtis). \u201cEverything must go.\u201d He means an Information Age equivalent of 9\/11, with cyberterrorists taking over government computer networks and crippling America\u2019s transportation, financial, and public-utility infrastructures.<\/p>\n
In time, the pair discovers that the meltdown is the megalomaniacal revenge plot of \u00fcber<\/em>geek Thomas Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant), who used to occupy a spot high up the Department of Defense food chain. For years, Gabriel had warned DoD officials that America\u2019s computer-network security was vulnerable. To prove his point, he had used a laptop to shut down NORAD. Rather than being given a commendation for his efforts, though, Gabriel got the pink slip.<\/p>\nLeft to his own devices, technological dinosaur McClane wouldn\u2019t have had the savvy even to begin<\/em> to hunt down the elusive Gabriel. And left to his<\/em> own devices, wan hacker Farrell probably couldn\u2019t have beaten one of his own collectible action figures in a fair fight. But, thanks to the division of labor and the time-tested sidekick plot device, this temperamentally mismatched team is unstoppable.<\/p>\nCharging through a rapid-fire series of action scenes, McClane is a human battering ram, taking out the bad guys and giving techno-wizard Farrell time to hack into the system and try to undo the damage. What a stroke of casting genius to pair the cantankerous McClane with the Mac Guy from Apple\u2019s TV commercials, in order to figure out the cyber pirates\u2019 next moves and head them off at the pass!<\/p>\n
This is a nearly perfect action picture, and just in time, too: I thought they forgot how to make \u2019em like this. For a movie so preoccupied with computer Armageddon, it eschews over-reliance on CGI special effects, opting instead for a stylized, yet gritty, look that never overwhelms the real with the virtual. Simon Duggan\u2019s adroit camerawork and Nicholas De Toth\u2019s editing hit all the marks, <\/em>reasserting the brutal aesthetic of the original as the visual standard for action films.<\/p>\nLike Bruce Willis\u2019s forthright portrayal of John McClane,<\/em> Live Free or Die Hard<\/em> is refreshingly Old School. McClane is a situational hero, not the mythological \u201cOne.\u201d There are no Matrix<\/em>-style <\/em>shots of him plinking bullets out of mid-air as he suspends time through Zen-like mental focus. In many ways, this is the anti-Matrix. <\/em>When Asian siren Mai Linh (Maggie Q) puts her kung fu moves on McClane, the camera doesn\u2019t pan 360\u00b0 as the two fighters go into Praying Mantis poses. Our hero just dusts himself off, gets behind the wheel of a Ford Explorer, revs it up, and slams her across the room and down an elevator shaft.<\/p>\nShortly after he launches a police squad car airborne in order to take out a helicopter, he and Farrell find themselves back on the road. Still shaken after being fired upon by Gabriel\u2019s henchmen, Farrell asks the seemingly detached cop what it\u2019s like being \u201ca hero.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know what you get for being a hero?\u201d McClane fires back. \u201cNothing. You get shot at. Get divorced. Eat a lot of meals alone. Your kids won\u2019t talk to you. Nobody wants to be that guy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen why do you do it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause there\u2019s nobody else to do it, that\u2019s why,\u201d he replies.<\/p>\n
\u00a0That\u2019s a real man\u2019s answer. Only a na\u00efve boy would set out to do heroic deeds; a man<\/em> has the wisdom to know that true heroism is revealed when trying circumstances put character to the test. To a cop, being a hero means more than just showing up for work; it means seeing the job through. In the tradition of the best action heroes, John McClane does the dirty work most people can\u2019t or won\u2019t do.<\/p>\nLike last year\u2019s Rocky Balboa<\/em>, Live Free or Die Hard <\/em>bookends admirably with its original. More than the previous two sequels, it captures the timeless spirit of the lone \u201ccowboy\u201d with a score to settle.<\/p>\nAt one point, Gabriel smugly mocks McClane: \u201cYou\u2019re a Timex watch in a digital age.\u201d But when he takes McClane\u2019s daughter Lucy hostage, he learns the hard way that McClane is also a ticking bomb.<\/p>\n
Millions of fans can only say: Yippie ki-yay!<\/em><\/p>\nRobert L. Jones is a photojournalist living and working in Minnesota. His work has appeared in\u00a0<\/span>Black & White Magazine<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Entrepreneur<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Hoy! New York<\/span><\/span>, the New York\u00a0<\/span>Post<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span><\/em>RCA Victor\u00a0<\/span>(Japan)<\/span><\/em>,\u00a0<\/span>Scene in San Antonio<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Spirit Magazine<\/span><\/span>\u00a0(Canada),\u00a0<\/span>Top Producer<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0 and the Trenton\u00a0<\/span>Times<\/span><\/span>. Mr. Jones is a past entertainment editor of\u00a0<\/span>The New Individualist<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 \u00a0 He Takes a Licking but Keeps on Ticking [xrr rating=4\/5] Live Free or Die Hard. Starring Bruce Willis, Timothy Olyphant, Justin Long, Maggie Q, Cliff Curtis, Jonathan Sadowski, Andrew Friedman, Kevin Smith, Yorgo Constantine, Cyril Raffaelli, Chris Palermo, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Music by Marco Beltrami. Cinematography by Simon Duggan, A.C.S.\u00a0 Production design […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,38,3,59,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-movies","category-comedies","category-mreview","category-sequels","category-suspense-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Live Free or Die Hard<\/em>. Starring Bruce Willis, Timothy Olyphant, Justin Long, Maggie Q, Cliff Curtis, Jonathan Sadowski, Andrew Friedman, Kevin Smith, Yorgo Constantine, Cyril Raffaelli, Chris Palermo, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Music by Marco Beltrami. Cinematography by Simon Duggan, A.C.S.\u00a0 Production design by Patrick Tatopoulos. Costume design by Denise Wingate. Edited by Nicholas DeToth. Screenplay by Mark Bomback. Story by Mark Bomback and David Marconi. Article \u201cA Farewell to Arms\u201d by John Carlin. Certain original characters by Roderick Thorp. Directed by Len Wiseman. (20th<\/sup> Century Fox, 2007, Color, 130 minutes. MPAA Rating: PG-13.)<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s hard to believe that Bruce Willis\u2019s wisecracking NYPD detective John McClane has been absent from the big screen for a dozen years. With this blistering fourth installment of the Die Hard<\/em> series, Willis seems to be laying claim to the \u201clast man standing\u201d title in the action movie genre. Which is appropriate, because almost twenty years ago, Willis and director John McTiernan (who returns as producer on this one) practically invented the smartass tough-guy action flick with their spectacular Die Hard<\/em>, <\/em>a film that promised\u2014and delivered\u2014\u201cForty stories of sheer adventure!\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n In the original, ruthless villain Hans Gruber (played by a suave, menacing Alan Rickman) and his Eurotrash henchmen took over and terrorized an L.A. high-rise to loot the Nakatomi Corporation\u2019s heavily guarded vaults. Like clockwork, everything went according to plan\u2014except for one thing they didn\u2019t plan on: Hard-boiled New York police sergeant John McClane was in the building. McClane was visiting the City of Angels on Christmas Eve to salvage his marriage to wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia), who had accepted an executive position on the West Coast to advance in the corporate world. When the goons started taking hostages, McClane started taking back the building, playing a bloody game of cat-and-mouse with Gruber and his gang.<\/p>\n What made Die Hard<\/em> an unexpected smash hit was McClane\u2019s sheer style<\/em>. The sardonic cop hunted down the criminals and picked them off one by one, tossing off sarcastic one-liners and four-letter words while laying waste to the building. Audiences thrilled to this rollercoaster ride of a movie, not only for its spectacular action scenes, but also because it didn\u2019t star a muscle-bound hero like Stallone or Schwarzenegger. Willis\u2019s McClane was a regular working stiff, a guy who made up for his lack of brawn with quick-witted common sense and uncommon resourcefulness, persevering when all options for survival seemed exhausted.<\/p>\n As he raced against the clock to rescue the skyscraper\u2019s occupants, the no-nonsense McClane didn\u2019t have time to go by the book. Half his battles were against LAPD and federal bureaucrats who did little except to dither and throw procedural roadblocks in his path. His combination of decisive action and impudence resurrected a distinctively American hero type\u2014a throwback to Humphrey Bogart\u2019s wisecracking detective Sam Spade from The Maltese Falcon<\/em> and Clint Eastwood\u2019s supremely insubordinate San Francisco cop, \u201cDirty Harry\u201d Callahan. By movie\u2019s end, McClane had destroyed half the Nakatomi Tower, killed all the bad guys, saved the day, and won back the girl. What more could we have asked for?<\/p>\n Die Hard\u2019s <\/em>premise\u2014\u201cthe wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time\u201d\u2014has been copied numerous times since, in such movies as Speed<\/em> and Passenger 57<\/em>. It\u2019s become so formulaic, in fact, that when the third installment in the franchise, Die Hard: With a Vengeance<\/em>, was released in 1995, the pairing of Willis with Samuel L. Jackson came off more like Lethal Weapon 3-1\/2<\/em> than a sequel. The fine line between action and comedy, navigated so deftly in the first two films, veered too much into silliness in the third, with the racial-tension subplot between the two leads undermining whatever suspense the movie aspired to build. That, plus Jeremy Irons\u2019s hammy performance as Hans Gruber\u2019s vindictive brother Simon, made for an anticlimactic motion picture.<\/p>\n Thankfully, with Live Free or Die Hard<\/em>, director Len Wiseman delivers a genuine edge-of-your-seat action movie of the kind that\u2019s been missing from the big screen since Willis still had a head full of hair.<\/p>\n \u00a0This go-around, John McClane is back and badder than ever. He\u2019s still a formidable S.O.B., still serving On The Job in New York, still barely staying on the wagon, still divorced, and still estranged from the kids. That estrangement doesn\u2019t stop him from tailing daughter Lucy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) at her Rutgers campus in the dead of night and forcibly removing her boyfriend from her parked car when the fellow gropes too far below her neckline. (Not that McClane really needed to\u2014Lucy\u2019s tough enough to enforce her own borders, you see.)<\/p>\n He gets a call to drive down to nearby Camden and serve a warrant on suspected computer hacker Matt Farrell (Justin Long) and bring him to FBI headquarters in Washington. Just as he\u2019s about to pick up his man, McClane gets pinned down in a hail of machine-gun fire from unknown assassins and barely manages to extricate Farrell.<\/p>\n So the action begins. And the action doesn\u2019t let up for almost two solid hours. By the time the two get to D.C., we learn that Matt is one of eight hackers who had been recruited to write code for a mysterious employer with (unbeknownst to them) nefarious aims. Once they served their purpose, every one was slain\u2014except Farrell.<\/p>\n As the sun rises, it\u2019s the Fourth of July\u2014and all hell breaks loose. The nation\u2019s transportation infrastructure goes haywire as all traffic signals turn green, causing cars, trucks, buses, and trains to collide. When McClane arrives to transfer his prisoner to FBI computer-security agents, he realizes that Farrell is the only one who grasps the method behind the madness grinding every metropolitan area to a standstill.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a fire sale,\u201d Farrell explains to McClane and FBI agent Bowman (Cliff Curtis). \u201cEverything must go.\u201d He means an Information Age equivalent of 9\/11, with cyberterrorists taking over government computer networks and crippling America\u2019s transportation, financial, and public-utility infrastructures.<\/p>\n In time, the pair discovers that the meltdown is the megalomaniacal revenge plot of \u00fcber<\/em>geek Thomas Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant), who used to occupy a spot high up the Department of Defense food chain. For years, Gabriel had warned DoD officials that America\u2019s computer-network security was vulnerable. To prove his point, he had used a laptop to shut down NORAD. Rather than being given a commendation for his efforts, though, Gabriel got the pink slip.<\/p>\n Left to his own devices, technological dinosaur McClane wouldn\u2019t have had the savvy even to begin<\/em> to hunt down the elusive Gabriel. And left to his<\/em> own devices, wan hacker Farrell probably couldn\u2019t have beaten one of his own collectible action figures in a fair fight. But, thanks to the division of labor and the time-tested sidekick plot device, this temperamentally mismatched team is unstoppable.<\/p>\n Charging through a rapid-fire series of action scenes, McClane is a human battering ram, taking out the bad guys and giving techno-wizard Farrell time to hack into the system and try to undo the damage. What a stroke of casting genius to pair the cantankerous McClane with the Mac Guy from Apple\u2019s TV commercials, in order to figure out the cyber pirates\u2019 next moves and head them off at the pass!<\/p>\n This is a nearly perfect action picture, and just in time, too: I thought they forgot how to make \u2019em like this. For a movie so preoccupied with computer Armageddon, it eschews over-reliance on CGI special effects, opting instead for a stylized, yet gritty, look that never overwhelms the real with the virtual. Simon Duggan\u2019s adroit camerawork and Nicholas De Toth\u2019s editing hit all the marks, <\/em>reasserting the brutal aesthetic of the original as the visual standard for action films.<\/p>\n Like Bruce Willis\u2019s forthright portrayal of John McClane,<\/em> Live Free or Die Hard<\/em> is refreshingly Old School. McClane is a situational hero, not the mythological \u201cOne.\u201d There are no Matrix<\/em>-style <\/em>shots of him plinking bullets out of mid-air as he suspends time through Zen-like mental focus. In many ways, this is the anti-Matrix. <\/em>When Asian siren Mai Linh (Maggie Q) puts her kung fu moves on McClane, the camera doesn\u2019t pan 360\u00b0 as the two fighters go into Praying Mantis poses. Our hero just dusts himself off, gets behind the wheel of a Ford Explorer, revs it up, and slams her across the room and down an elevator shaft.<\/p>\n Shortly after he launches a police squad car airborne in order to take out a helicopter, he and Farrell find themselves back on the road. Still shaken after being fired upon by Gabriel\u2019s henchmen, Farrell asks the seemingly detached cop what it\u2019s like being \u201ca hero.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou know what you get for being a hero?\u201d McClane fires back. \u201cNothing. You get shot at. Get divorced. Eat a lot of meals alone. Your kids won\u2019t talk to you. Nobody wants to be that guy.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThen why do you do it?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBecause there\u2019s nobody else to do it, that\u2019s why,\u201d he replies.<\/p>\n \u00a0That\u2019s a real man\u2019s answer. Only a na\u00efve boy would set out to do heroic deeds; a man<\/em> has the wisdom to know that true heroism is revealed when trying circumstances put character to the test. To a cop, being a hero means more than just showing up for work; it means seeing the job through. In the tradition of the best action heroes, John McClane does the dirty work most people can\u2019t or won\u2019t do.<\/p>\n Like last year\u2019s Rocky Balboa<\/em>, Live Free or Die Hard <\/em>bookends admirably with its original. More than the previous two sequels, it captures the timeless spirit of the lone \u201ccowboy\u201d with a score to settle.<\/p>\n At one point, Gabriel smugly mocks McClane: \u201cYou\u2019re a Timex watch in a digital age.\u201d But when he takes McClane\u2019s daughter Lucy hostage, he learns the hard way that McClane is also a ticking bomb.<\/p>\n Millions of fans can only say: Yippie ki-yay!<\/em><\/p>\n Robert L. Jones is a photojournalist living and working in Minnesota. His work has appeared in\u00a0<\/span>Black & White Magazine<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Entrepreneur<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Hoy! New York<\/span><\/span>, the New York\u00a0<\/span>Post<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span><\/em>RCA Victor\u00a0<\/span>(Japan)<\/span><\/em>,\u00a0<\/span>Scene in San Antonio<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Spirit Magazine<\/span><\/span>\u00a0(Canada),\u00a0<\/span>Top Producer<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0 and the Trenton\u00a0<\/span>Times<\/span><\/span>. Mr. Jones is a past entertainment editor of\u00a0<\/span>The New Individualist<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 \u00a0 He Takes a Licking but Keeps on Ticking [xrr rating=4\/5] Live Free or Die Hard. Starring Bruce Willis, Timothy Olyphant, Justin Long, Maggie Q, Cliff Curtis, Jonathan Sadowski, Andrew Friedman, Kevin Smith, Yorgo Constantine, Cyril Raffaelli, Chris Palermo, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Music by Marco Beltrami. Cinematography by Simon Duggan, A.C.S.\u00a0 Production design […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,38,3,59,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-movies","category-comedies","category-mreview","category-sequels","category-suspense-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}