Directed by: John McTiernan
Starring: Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons, Samuel L Jackson, Larry Bryggman, Graham Greene.
This is my favourite Die Hard film and possibly my favourite action film.
This time around, John McClane is actually on-duty rather than on his holidays like the previous installments.
The bad guy is Simon Gruber, brother to Hans Gruber from the first film, and at first the police believe that he is looking for vengeance for his brother.
Simon, using the old game of simon says, blows up various buildings and gets McClane to do random 'jobs' for him or else he'll let off another bomb.
The first 'job' is for McClane to walk around Harlem wearing a sign with the words 'I hate niggers' written on it. When a gang of black youths start to threaten him a local shopkeeper by the name of Zeus Carver (Samuel L Jackson) intervenes not out of concern but because he thinks all of the white cop's collegues will come and hunt down thousands of black people.
Simon then insists that Zeus become part of the game whether he likes it or not.
After solving many riddles, the true nature of Gruber's plan comes out when a young boy tells them that with all the police searching for the bombs, someone could 'steal city hall'.
Finding Gruber stealling all the gold and filling several dump trucks with it, they try to stop him. Many action scenes follow. Just like the previous films, the stunts and special effects are terrific and the storyline has a few twists.
This Die Hard has lots of comedy aswell as action because of the amazing Samuel L Jackson.
This film would have been near perfect if not for the length of it. You think the ending is in clear site then there is a plot twist and the ending furthers away.
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