Live Free or Die Hard is my second favorite Die Hard movie (behind the original, of course). For most it is probably Die Hard - With A Vengeance, which I also love, but I have always enjoyed Live Free (except for one scene, the F35 scene).

For me it goes;
Die Hard – A nearly perfect movie.
Live Free – Slightly flawed, but I enjoy.
With a Vengeance – Nearly perfect.
Die Hard 2 – A good (but not great) action movie, with no glaring flaw that can be fixed by an edit and doesn’t necessarily need it anyway.
A Good Day to – Very flawed and just not a good movie at all. I already did an edit of it, trying to make it at least tolerable as part of a rewatch.
But back to the point of this post, Live Free or Die Hard. This edit uses the unrated version as the base and adds back in most of (if not all) that was removed from the theatrical to make the unrated version. The only things that were not added back are the lines that were directly replaced with a new line. And the biggest changes are to the F35 scene near the end.

The story thus far: Will Smith is chasing Trinity after she tries to escape with the secret documents. Sean Connery is not far behind and Nicolas Cage tries to keep up; but Matt Damon intervenes. A huge meta car chase ensues.

This mixes the best elements of the theatrical version with the ones from the unrated edition for what could have been the best Die Hard movie ever.

The goal of this edit was to make LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD To feel a bit more like the original trilogy of DIE HARD films. It removes the more ridiculous, cartoony moments in favor of making a stronger, meaner action movie.