Archetype of the action genre

Rating: 5/10 (8 April 2013)

Undeniably, the movie was a precursor, setting the tone for the blockbuster genre we all know today, but it is still hard to understand how Die Hard is such highly considered when there is so much to say.
The movie gathers all the heaviest clichés of the genre: the bad guys are foreigners (why ?) and more dumb one from another, but the good guy is invincible and manages to kill everyone quite easily, the dialogues are often ridiculous, the situations sometimes far-fetched, the characters ultra stereotyped... and the list goes on.
Everything isn't to be thrown out though: Alan Rickman is particularly interesting in the role of the cynical leader, and one could also note the effective cinematography. But it's just not enough to raise the bar of this caricatural, pretty long -the second part seems endless- and quite jerky movie.