Whoa! Where did all those high ratings come from??

Rating: Null/10 (8 August 2001)

I finally got around to seeing Bruce Willis' "Die Hard", and for sure it is not a very good movie. Sure, it has lots of shoot-em-up action, but a very thin thread of a story about foreign thugs holding captive a big business celebration party at the top of a high-rise in L.A. to try and steal the $450 million of certificates in the safe. It is predominantly Willis as the N.Y. cop, coming to visit his L.A. businesswoman wife, and his outsmarting the bad guys. It even ends in a neat little package with him and his wife (Bonnie Bedelia) walking out arm-in-arm.
It's high rating on the Imdb, currently #129, is disrespectful to all those fine movies rated below it. The best I could rate "Die Hard" is 5 or 6 on the 10-point scale.