This one was not bad, I liked it, I liked the combination with Samuel L. Jackson, he was a nice addition as he often is. It starts with a bomb in New York, and a guy calling the police saying that if John McClane won’t do everything he asks, another bomb will go off somewhere in the city. He likes to play this game “Simon orders..” and he must obey. John (Bruce Willis) was on suspension, but is brought back because of Simon. Not that he had anything else to do other than getting drunk , wasted :-/
Simon orders him to go to Harlem, half naked, wearing a big sign that reads “I hate niggers”, which is obviously very dangerous - I mean, it’s always bad to insult someone, but if you go to their home to do it, it is even worse. A good man there, Zeus (Jackson), helps him get out of there alive - I like the scared look on John’s face when some men approach him with aggressive attitudes, well done. Zeus tells him that he did it because if something had happened to a white man in Harlem, the next day cops would have filled the place seeking vengeance on everyone, something like that, and not because he cared for him specifically; still, Simon knows about him and forces him to join John in the game, calling him ‘the good samaritan’. They have to:
—answer a public phone, and when Simon tells them they’re a minute late, they throw themselves on the floor yelling ‘bomb bomb’ but people simply look at them like they were mad (which is not so normal given that a bomb exploded only a few hours before) but this time nothing happens, Simon was joking, after all he hadn’t said ‘Simon orders’ or whatever it is he says
—they must get to a certain train station in thirty minutes, which seems almost impossible with the city traffic, so they cut through the park, follow an ambulance and still are not sure, so John jumps on the train while Zeus keeps driving to the station. John finds the bomb on the train. Zeus gets there on time, but Simon says they fail because they’re not together, so boom. John threw the bomb out of the train, so big big mess but not many casualties (don’t know the details). The annoying thing, the scene that is really really annoying is when Zeus must answer the phone but a young cop saw him enter the station without paying (he was in a hurry) so stops him, gun in hand, all trembling, shouting freeze or I shoot, or whatever he says, and I was at home thinking ‘he just didn’t pay a ticket, is he really going to shoot a man for not paying a train ticket???” come on!
I think it ends with Zeus saving the little cop’s life.
—they must reach a fountain and defuse a bomb by putting the right weight of water on it.
Meanwhile, all the cops in the city are searching every school to find the bomb that Simon told them about. The Fbi told them that Simon is the brother of ‘Alan Rickman’s character in the first film’ what was his name? The one that died, anyway.
Now we see why Simon was doing all this. Knowing that he’s serious with bombs, every cop in the city is searching schools, leaving not a single cop in the Wall Street area where the Federal Reserve is. Simon’s way is totally free and he attacks big style.
John and Zeus disarm that last bomb, but it somehow doesn’t add up for John, he suspects something going on, and realizes the truth when a stealing-kid tells him to look around, not a cop in sight! He understands now because schools are all elsewhere, the Wall Street area is full of money and gold, but not one school.
When John approaches, fake-cops call Simon for instructions, and he tells them to kill him, and guess what do they do? They let him go in, talk to him, take him to the lift, go down together… why do they feel the need to shoot him downstairs? Why didn’t they shoot him right away? Of course because he’s the hero, I know I know… no other reason :-/
Of course John understands they’re not real cops (by seeing the only shield numbers he knows on a man he doesn’t know) , so it’s the start of a lot of shooting, shouting and running, the usual.
The cops find the bomb in the school attended by the kids that were talking to Zeus at the beginning of the film. The whole school is evacuated but they decided to hide because they thought the cops were after them because of that stolen radio - they didn’t know there was a bomb. When the school is closed and they are seen still inside, Charlie the bomb expert doesn’t go out but stays in to try and save them, and honestly that was the bravest scene of the whole movie !
Sure it turns out it was a fake bomb, but he didn’t know that!
It was a fake bomb because Simon says he’s not a monster, he’s a soldier…. soldiers should know who they’re killing, in my opinion. A bomb in a public place can kill anyone, children, women, innocent men, dogs! So you see Simon, you are a monster (a sexy one, but still).
John and Zeus are taken prisoner on Simon’s ship, tied up sitting upon a big bomb while they go away. Again, it’s very silly, but it was 1995 so…
John says he has a terrible headache so Simon gives him his aspirin :-/ Zeus wonders why he’s so pissed off with John, since he didn’t even like his brother, but Simon (rightly this time) points out that there is a difference between not liking your brother and not care if some guy throws him off a building.
Of course John and Zeus get out of there, still many die hard in John’s future. The gold was supposed to be on the ship too, but it wasn’t. (Easily to understand why it wasn’t, Simon kept it for himself, but why was it supposed to be on it? What cause would that help? Plus, blowing up gold is not like blowing up people. Nothing you can do for the men, but the gold, someone would have retrieved it later…right?)
They’re safe ashore now, and Zeus has John call his wife after such a long time, but when he’s on the phone he watches the aspirin tube and what do you know, on it is written when Simon is… *rollingeyes*
So John leaves the phone hanging without saying a word to his wife (still wife? not divorced? really? what is she waiting for?)
So, Simon was so sure he’d die that gave him aspirin bought near his hiding place *rollingeyes*
The final battle sees Simon on a helicopter with automated rifle who misses him, and John on foot, and he doesn’t miss. End of Simon.
At the end, John tries again to phone his wife… the end.
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