Good

Rating: 7/10 (30 August 2014)

The setup: John McClane, officer of the NYPD, tries to save wife Holly Gennaro and several others, taken hostage by German terrorist Hans Gruber during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
The verdict: The film has good structure. The characters are all cardboard, with the exception of John McClane (Bruce Willis of "Moonlighting" fame). Bruce Willis plays McClane to a hilt. John McClane is a man who puts his job as a policeman above all else. There are a lot of good action scenes, and fisticuffs. All in all, I give this 1988 movie a rating of seven out of ten for its action and humor sequences.