Die Hard is an explosive, thrilling, ferociously paced actioner

Rating: 8/10 (1 February 2008)

DIE HARD (1988)
(stealing Tony's shoes) John McClane: Nine million terrorists in the world and I gotta kill one with feet smaller than my sister.
Die Hard is an important film for two main reasons:
(a) It revitalised a genre into a modern age.
(b) It showed us how tough, lean and mean, Bruce Willis could be and a new cinematic action hero was born.
John McClane, an NYC cop, is visiting his successful wife for the Christmas holidays, when a group of terrorists, led by the ruthless Alan Rickman (in a great, villainous performance) take over the Nakatomi Plaza, trapping him, his wife, along with other hostages in for a surprisingly perilous Christmas experience. It is not long before McClane clicks, and takes the whole terrorist group on by himself, in what is guaranteed to be one of the most original and frenetic cinematic experiences of all time, a film that could be watched again and again.
8/10