An Action Movie Masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (29 April 2014)

Die Hard is John McTiernan's 2nd masterpiece of his action trilogy shot back to back to back starting with Predator, Die Hard, and then The Hunt for Red October.
This film took a usually dark genre (terrorist movies) and applied humor, empathy, wit, suspense, and dynamic action to deliver something incredibly iconic and influential. It catapulted Bruce Willis' television career to movie star caliber. It cemented John Mctiernan's reputation as a great director of action with brains. The level of suspense in this film is amazing with high level intensity. What's great about the films is it displays that bad guys can be smart, intelligent, and sophisticated. It also shows that the hero can make mistakes, beaten, suffered, but also resilient. This films still holds up today and has been ripped of countless times since it has become its own genre (Die Hard).
Die Hard on a Ship (Under Siege), Die Hard on Bus (Speed), Die Hard on Plane (Air Force One), Die Hard on Alcatraz (The Rock), Die Hard on a Cruise Ship (Speed 2) Die Hard on a Bridge, I mean you can literally apply it to anything like Die Hard on dog crap and it will work. Last year there was Die Hard in the white house (Olympus Has Fallen).....again (White House Down) and then now the return of Die Hard the TV show, aka 24 or 24: live another day.