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Thomas Gabriel is a talented computer hacker who was once a top expert for the National Security Agency, but was fired and his reputation smeared for trying to warn his superiors about the country’s vulnerability to cyber attack. He has contacted a number of hackers across the United States, paying them handsomely to write code. However, after they have delivered their code, they are killed by a team of assassins sent by Mai, Gabriel’s girlfriend. When Gabriel’s plot starts to unfold, the Federal Bureau of Investigation responds by initiating a nationwide roundup of all known top hackers. New York City police officer John McClane is assigned to bring in Matthew Farrell from Camden, New Jersey. As McClane collects Farrell, who has just transferred his code to Gabriel, the two are attacked by Mai’s assassins, but McClane is able to extract Farrell and kill most of their attackers.

McClane drives Farrell down to the FBI headquarters in Washington D.C., where Farrell is questioned. As the transportation grid and stock market are sabotaged by Gabriel, Farrell believes that Gabriel is trying to create a “fire sale” (in which everything must go) to demonstrate the vulnerability of computer-controlled systems, by shutting down vital systems one by one. McClane and Farrell are driven by the FBI in a convoy to a secure building, but Gabriel is able to locate Farrell and send gunmen in a helicopter to kill them. McClane manages to send a police car airborne over a tollbooth to destroy the helicopter.

As McClane and Farrell recover, Gabriel nationally televises a fake video of the United States Capitol exploding, setting off a public panic. Farrell believes that the power grid will be the next target, and directs McClane to the power superstation in West Virginia, where they find Mai and her henchmen. McClane is able to kill all of them, including Mai. Gabriel tries to contact Mai, but reaches McClane instead, who gives him the news about his dead girlfriend. Gabriel redirects all the natural gas in nearby pipelines to the station, but McClane and Farrell escape just before it explodes, taking out the power on most of the East Coast. Farrell suggests that they go get help from Warlock, a hacker friend.

Warlock, who has power generators in case of an outage, investigates the code Farrell created for Gabriel and finds a connection to the Social Security Administration’s facility at Woodlawn, Maryland, an unlikely target. They discover that the building is actually a front for a highly secure government facility. In case of a total computer systems failure (such as the one Gabriel manufactured), every critical personal and financial record across the country is sent to servers at the facility to create a backup. Gabriel’s men infiltrate the facility and begin downloading a copy for his personal profit.

Gabriel detects Warlock’s hack and speaks with him, McClane, and Farrell. He tells McClane that he has his daughter Lucy as a hostage. McClane and Farrell drive to the Woodlawn facility. As McClane deals with Gabriel’s forces, Farrell manages to encrypt the downloaded data to block access to it. Gabriel and his remaining men capture Farrell as they escape.

Gabriel and his men leave the facility before the FBI can arrive, but McClane hijacks Gabriel’s semi and pursues. Gabriel hacks into the military’s computers to deceive a F-35B Lightning II pilot into believing that McClane is a terrorist, and he destroys the truck. McClane manages to escape and tracks Gabriel to a nearby warehouse.

McClane dispatches the remainder of Gabriel’s men, but Gabriel holds Lucy and Farrell hostage. McClane is wounded after Gabriel shoots him in the shoulder. He forces McClane to watch as he prepares to kill Lucy and Farrell. However, when Gabriel grinds his gun into McClane’s wound, McClane fires it through his shoulder, killing Gabriel. The last criminal is shot by Farrell. To McClane’s chagrin, Lucy and Farrell show interest in each other.

Starring – Bruce Willis, Timothy Olyphant, Justin Long, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Maggie Q, Kevin Smith
Director – Len Wiseman
Screenplay – Mark Bomback
Official Site – http://www.livefreeordiehard.com/
IMDB – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337978/
Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Free_or_Die_Hard

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