He’s back! Bruce Willis playing his everlasting character John McClane is on screens again! It seems that 2007 is the year of coming-backs: for Willis and others like him, ex-heroes who are not able to get old like ordinary people usually do.

Sylvester Stallone for example brought Rocky to life again in 2007, being very willing to do the same with Rambo. So, Willis is not alone. Resurrecting old characters is a job! And resurrecting actors, well!, that’s cool for real fans and little children.

Anyway, maybe Bruce grew bold and looks a little bit old since 1988, when he had first played McClane, but his flair and motivation are the same: playing again a role that made him famous could be somehow refreshing.

The action within the forth installment of “Die Hard” is mainly the same; only the context was updated. John McClane will have his fight against Internet terrorists, while battling also with his own inner feeling and frustrations.

It’s maybe true that aging Willis is embarrassingly trying to reclaim old glory, but somehow “Live Free or Die Hard” makes you smile or even laugh at some time. It’s also true that for the old fans or for the ones who just watched the first “Die Hard” movies, “Live Free or Die Hard” seems to bring back an old friend, or just an old familiar face. Silly and following the same old story (bitter, ironical good cop versus bad guys), the forth installment of the franchise could be boring, if one expects to something else. But if one expects to meet again approximately the same old character fighting for the same old cause (as he was 20 years ago), the movie could be quite relaxing.

Everybody gets old, isn’t it? At least McClane, despite his age and all of that, is now running after hackers – the terrorists of our century. He will also face traditional gunfire and he will be chasing the bad guys like years and years ago. Although he barely understands what hacking is, McClane remains as usually the only one who could catch the bad guys (using the same old methods, evidently).

“Live Free or Die Hard” was directed by Len Wiseman, its screenplay was written by Mark Bomback and it is produced by Michael Fottrell. Bruce Willis appears alongside actors Timothy Olyphant, Marry Elizabeth Winstead and others.