Quite possibly the best movie of all time

Rating: 10/10 (13 June 2003)

Every once in a while I run into Die Hard on my DSS/Tivo and just put it on for background stimulation, however, it ALWAYS sucks me right in and I am glued to the tube.
You can read all the comments from people raving about this movie but I'd like to add something: All the characters, even the minor ones, are developed until the movie almost seems like an epic with multiple plots!

Each of the henchmen looks different from the others (good casting), speak many languages and have radically different dispositions. This is an unrecognized instance of pure genius I see in no other movie! Karl the psychopath, Marco the wisecracking Italian, Heinrich the cranky, p*ssed off munitions guy, the German Frankenstein moving the missiles, Theo the quick witted smart ass hacker, and others.
Everyone in this movie acted their asses off and the editing makes everything flow smoothly.
The best player in the entire film was Allan Rickman, who played Hans Gruber, the leader of the bad guys. I saw a documentary on the making of this film and there were people at the studio wanting to remove him because he was ruining the film. It makes you wonder what sort of great gems we will never see because some corporate idiot quashed them.