favorite action movie ever

Rating: 10/10 (23 June 2000)

this is my favorite action movie (followed closely by terminator 2). i gave it a 10/10 not because it is one of the greatest movies ever (after all it's an action movie) but because it is the highest of its genre, and so so many movies have attempted to recreate its success since. bruce willis is perfect (and by the way is actually a very good actor) and the villian (whose name i am blanking on) is one of the best villians ever (up there with hannibal, darth vader, john malkovich in in the line of fire and gary oldman in everything. no other action movie measures up, and no amount of cool special effects will outdo the basic bad @$$ness of diehard (just the first one; i thought the next two fell way short of it, although samuel l. jackson was cool in the 3rd but ain't he cool in everything...)