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Exceptionally well-directed by John McTiernan, Die Hard made Bruce Willis a star back in 1988 and established a new template for action stories. Here the bad guys, led by the velvet-voiced Alan Rickman, assume control of a Los Angeles high-rise with Willis's visiting New York cop inside. The attraction of the film has as much to do with the sight of a barefoot mortal running around the guts of a modern office tower as it has with the plentiful fight sequences and the bond the hero establishes with an LA beat cop. Bonnie Bedelia plays Willis's wife, Hart Bochner is good as a brash hostage who tries negotiating his way to freedom, Alexander Godunov makes for a believable killer with lethal feet and William Atherton is slimy as a busybody reporter.
Director Renny Harlin took the reins for the 1990 sequel, Die Harder, which places Willis's New York City cop in harm's way again with a gaggle of terrorists. This time, Willis awaits his wife's arrival at Dulles Airport in Washington, DC when he gets wind of a plot to blow up the facility. Noisy, overbearing and forgettable, the film has none of the purity of its predecessor's simple story; and it makes a huge miscalculation in allowing a terrible tragedy to occur rather than stretch out the tension. Where Die Hard set new precedents in action movies, Die Hard 2 is just an anything-goes spectacle --Tom Keogh
The second sequel, Die Hard with a Vengeance brings Detective John McClane to New York City to face a better villain than in Die Hard 2. Jeremy Irons is the brother of Alan Rickman's Germanic terrorist-thief from the original film. But this bad guy has his sights set higher: on the Federal Reserve's cache of gold. As a distraction, he sets McClane running fool's errands all over New York--and eventually, McClane attracts an unintentional partner, a Harlem dry cleaner (Samuel L Jackson) with a chip on his shoulder. Some great action sequences can't obscure the rather large plot holes in the film's final 45 minutes. --Marshall Fine
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
High Octane Movie Action,
By Ian Westley "skiff-n-run" (Perthshire) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Die Hard/Die Hard 2: Die Harder/Die Hard With a Vengeance [DVD] [1990] (DVD)
Three of the best movies of their genre in one package represents excellent value for money.These classics can be re-visited time and again and still they pack a punch. So turn up the heating, open a cold beer, strip to your vest, and enjoy!
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent trilogy set,
By A Customer
This review is from: Die Hard/Die Hard 2: Die Harder/Die Hard With a Vengeance [DVD] [1990] (DVD)
This set includes all three Die Hard movies, and includes a biography of actors, featurettes and audio commentary. It also includes the original theatrical trailer for Die Hard, and interviews with some of the actors.This is great value and an excellent addition to anyone's collection.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Still heavily censored...,
This review is from: Die Hard/Die Hard 2: Die Harder/Die Hard With a Vengeance [DVD] [1990] (DVD)
In particular, Die Hard: With A Vengeance, which is actually the 15 certificate UK edit, despite this whole package carrying an 18 certificate. The odd cut here and there to tone the violence down doesn't usually bother me that much, but in this UK release, there's some very clumsy splicing and dubbing used to make the violence and language acceptable for those poor British 15-17 year-olds who would clearly be mortally offended by such things.
If you want to see the proper Die Hard: With A Vengeance movie, get the Region 1 [NTSC] version.
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