The Best Action Film Ever Made.

Rating: 10/10 (1 November 2000)

Excuse me if the one-line summary sounded a little biased, but this film has to be in everyone's videocassette or DVD collection. Here's the story: It's Christmastime, and New York policeman John McClane is spending Christmas with his estranged wife in Los Angeles. Meeting with her at her workplace, he reluctantly stays for the office Christmas party. Moments later, terrorists, led by the cool and precise Hans Gruber, arrive and put the Christmas party to a fatal halt. One thing they didn't count on was the attitude and skills of John McClane. This movie has great character development even for the minor characters. It brings us the first action hero with a weakness, and that shows he has soul along with many elements of the film. Bruce Willis is great as the cowboy known as John McClane. Alan Rickman is awesome as Hans Gruber in this movie, you will never find a more smooth bad guy (unless you consider Simon in the third Die Hard). The music is well composed, especially some of the things they do with Beethoven's Ode to Joy. See this movie, because frankly, you won't find a better action movie than this one.