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Matthew Farrell

"Why would they want to kill me?"

―Matt Farrell

Matthew "Matt" Farrell is a computer hacker that John McClane is assigned to bring into FBI custody. He is the deuteragonist of the fourth film.

Appearance[]

Matt has both brown hair and eyes with slight stubble and unkempt appearance, he wears a long sleeved t-shirt with a baggy over shirt and jeans through the entire movie. He carries a mobile hacking kit with a rolled up keyboard and other tech.

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Passing his algorithm leads to danger[]

Farrell was among the hackers to pass his math-based security algorithm to what he thought were security experts conducting an exercise to test the security of their company, not knowing that they are actually a team of cyber-terrorists.

Later, in his apartment, Farrell chats with Warlock online. Warlock discovered what had happened to the other coders on the project, all dead in explosions, and tells Matt to “get disappeared”. He then sees that his system began to malfunction, as mercenaries in a van outside had uploaded a virus. Just when he was about to press the delete button, which had the pre-planted bomb, someone knocked on his door. He went to his door and it was John McClane, a New York police detective. McClane convinces him to let him in after getting caught in a lie, calling himself Daisy Duke to avoid the officer.

As Farrell asked what McClane was doing in his apartment, he tells the hacker the FBI Cyber Security Division wants to question him regarding a computer breach. McClane proceeds to break his expensive Spawn figurine, leading Matt to snark at him to break more expensive stuff. Farrell realizes that he's probably caught doing his passing of his code to some people. Farrell pretends that he's powering down his network. When McClane wasn't looking at him, Farrell tries to escape to the window that leads to the fire escape, but the

2007 US action film directed by Len Wiseman

Live Free or Die Hard (released as Die Hard 4.0 outside North America) is a 2007 American action thriller film directed by Len Wiseman, and serves as the fourth installment in the Die Hard film series. It is based on the 1997 article "A Farewell to Arms" written for Wired magazine by John Carlin. The film's name references New Hampshire's state motto, "Live Free or Die".

In the film, NYPD Detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) attempts to stop a cyber-terrorist, Thomas Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant) who hacks into government and commercial computers across the United States with the goal of starting a "fire sale" cyber attack that would disable key elements of the nation's infrastructure. Justin Long, Cliff Curtis, Maggie Q, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead also star.

Live Free or Die Hard was released in the United States on June 27, 2007. The film grossed $388 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing installment in the Die Hard series. It received positive reviews from critics. It is the only Die Hard film to be theatrically released with a PG-13 rating from the MPAA, although an unrated edition would later be made available on home media. A fifth film, A Good Day to Die Hard, was released in 2013.

Plot

In response to the brief blackout at the FBI Cyber Division headquarters, FBI Deputy Director Miguel Bowman requests local law enforcement to bring in high-level computer hackers nationwide. NYPD detective John McClane was assigned to New Jersey to pick up Matthew Farrell. As McClane arrives, assassins sent by Thomas Gabriel, a hacker and leader of cyberterrorists, attack them, but McClane and Farrell manage to escape.

On the way to Washington D.C., Farrell tells McClane he had written an algorithm for Mai Linh to crack a specific security system for white hat purposes. Meanwhile, Gabriel orders his crew of hackers to take over transportation grids an

Has anyone ever thought what it was like to be married to a man like John McClane? Well… Marriage, like most things, has at least two ways of looking at it. And I’m sure as hell no-one has even bothered to listen to Holly’s side of things.

With the newest installment of the “Die Hard” series, came a poop storm of reviews. I should know, I shared my two cents on what I think of diluting and desecrating the best action movie ever made by over-extending it into a pointless franchise. I don’t want to reiterate here, how destructive to the series was endowing its protagonist with superhuman powers, so a shocking rotten tomatoes score of 16% is almost self-explanatory here.

However, some time ago whilst sitting at work on a Friday afternoon and contemplating the notion of moving certain responsibilities for the following Monday, a thought lit up inside my head. That thought instigated some sort of a mild schizophrenic episode on my part wherein I had a conversation with myself on the subject of ‘why Die Hard ended up being a pathetic excuse for what it used to be’. Apart from the obvious ‘money, money, money’ reason, I dare say herein, in the geekiest manner possible, that John McClane has brought it on himself and from a point of view of character development it was simply inevitable.

In order to provide evidence for such bold claims of mine (yeah, I know – nobody cares, what I’m doing here is pointless) I gleefully proceeded to re-watch the original “Die Hard”… and the sequel… and the third one… and even the fourth one, even though it was a bit of a struggle, and after a bit of consideration I have to say that the key to understanding the inevitability of Die Hard’s demise is John McClane’s wife – Holly Gennero.

Interesting piece of trivia – I think nobody knows how to spell Holly’s name properly – even the guys that made the first Die Hard. Bonnie Bedelia (the actress portraying her) was credited as ‘Gennaro’ at the end of t