"Dude, you've never seen Die Hard (1988)? DUDE, it ROCKS!"

Rating: Null/10 (24 January 2002)

Well, now, finally, I have.
Gotta say I was a little underwhelmed. That is, I enjoyed it, but not in the sincerely-on-the-edge-of-my-seat way that I expected to. More in a dude-now-he's-in-the-elevator-shaft-pass-the-mini-pretzels kind of way. Which is what they were aiming for, no doubt, and which is what everyone seems to love about it. But it was still sort of a shock to find out that this Beloved Action Classic was actually deeply goofy and directed sort of clumsily and, in many ways, didn't really make any sense.
Just now I started to list the problems more specifically, but then it occurred to me, and this is important..."what would be the point?" Consider:
'Die Hard' has a bunch of big explosions in it and Bruce Willis makes fists with his toes. Is it not then, in some sense, of a world beyond criticism?