Lots of explosions and gunfire - fab!

Rating: 9/10 (1 September 2017)

The problem with starring in a film with Alan Rickman is to stop him stealing the show. Rickman is great in this film too. He is such a good bad guy...But, unlike the Costner Robin Hood film, he does not steal the show - not quite...
This is partly because Bruce Willis's part is bigger (or so he tells us), but also because he is excellent. As always, Willis carries off his role with aplomb and humour, and the action keeps coming, thick and fast. Very much plot-driven, rather than character-driven, but this is what one has signed up for of course.
the stunts are convincing, and the plot is tightly woven.
Of its kind, this is as good as it gets.
My only small objection is that Willis's sidekick is a gentleman of colour, and this smacks to me a little bit of Seagal movies where there is always a black guy or a native American worshipping the ground our hero walks on. This is less egregious in Die Hard, but a tiny bit irksome all the same.