The best action movie ever!!!

Rating: 10/10 (5 February 2001)

Die Hard is probably the movie I saw most in my entire life. Why? Because it's the best action movie ever. For two reasons.
1 The film on its own is a masterpiece. Script, acting, photography, direction, editing, they're all first rate. Especially the first two (script and acting) aren't the things which make us remember most action films. Mostly because they're so miserable or just a Die Hard rip off, which brings me to
2 This film defines action film in the 1990's. Almost every action film involving hostages is known as a Die Hard in a bus (Speed, also a terrific movie), Die Hard on a boat (Under Siege, Speed 2), Die Hard in the mountains (Cliffhanger), Die Hard on an airplane (Executive Decision), Die Hard in a skyscraper (Skyscraper, O my God so bad!).
Die Hard influenced so many movies it's hard not to call this one a classic. The Die Hard formula (put a man or a few people in a small environment, throw in some - European - terrorists and let the good guys win after you've destroyed enough equipment and bad guys) is copied so many times it's hard to make a film with terrorists in it without being compared with Die Hard.
I have to make a special note about Alan Rickman, who plays one of the coolest bad guys in movie history, Hans Gruber.
I rate this one a 10 (out of 10)