SYSTEMS DOWN - Die Hard 4

Die Hard 4 had arrived. It’s time to buy lots of popcorns and hit the theatres! Looking at the posters, I knew that Die Hard 4 would deliver some new actions. Well, at least I knew something was new even before watching it. John McClane (Bruce Willis) is now bald (a.k.a no hair) and he got himself a pretty but stubborn daughter, Lucy McClane (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). McClane looks a bit old but wiser – and he doesn’t get any less dangerous.

Time and technology had advanced very quickly. This time McClane had to face a young-geek-genius terrorist. The mastermind named Thomas Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant) with IT background formerly did a government project and accidentally found a weak spot in the system. But instead of reward, he got fired instead. He was furious and declared a cyber war against the government. He threatened to paralyze all the computer systems and send us all back to the Stone Age.

Apparently, he was not working alone. Few great hackers were hired to penetrate the system and few mercenary also hired to do the other dirty works. Suddenly, Thomas was able to take control of the whole IT system in the city, from the traffic lights until the security social numbers. The city quickly turned to chaos with all computer system and electricity down. The stock market went berserk, the traffic went nuts and accidents occurred everywhere.

In the last critical moment, McClane was able to save one of the hacker named Matt Farrell (Justin Long) who unfortunately didn’t have any clue of what he’s doing. The rest of the hackers were killed by explosions from their own computers for the purpose of eliminating evidences. Matt Farrell was the only hope of tracing the terrorists’ motives and movement.

McClane found himself in trouble again as he had to protect the hacker, save his daughter Lucy, and whoop the bad guys’ asses. Not to mention McClane’s relationship with his daughter Lucy didn’t go very well either. McClane didn’t even know how to operate the computers but tried his best to prove that the cyber disasters could also be solved by wits, guns and muscles.

Could the combination of wits, cunning, muscles, and geeks be able to bring the systems back to normal from the hands of a cyber psychopath? Watch and learn… Yippe Kay Yay, You M!@#$%^&*!

Ivan the Freelancer