Best action movie ever.

Rating: Null/10 (21 July 2002)

It's Christmas. NYPD cop John McClane(Bruce Willis) goes to LA to be re-united with his wife Holly(Bonnie Bedelia). There's a party thrown in the Nakatomi building with 40 floors and the party is organized on the 30th floor. Once John is there to celebrate Christmas with his wife, 10 min later the building is taken over by terrorists. They got everyone as a hostage except for John McClane, who now has to defeat the terrorists.
'Die Hard' is definitely the best action movie ever. Here are the reasons:

1) The plot is really great. A cop has to defeat terrorists on his own. He finds out that these are really professional terrorists who are very intelligent and he realizes that his wife is in danger, the only 2 things he can do is to use all of his brains, and to confront the terrorists. This story is really original and many movies have copied this story, for example 'Air Force One', 'Sudden Death', 'Under Siege' and many more.

2) Suspense combined with non-stop action and a little sense of humor and that on every floor of the building. Explosions, stunts, guns, helicopters, tanks, violence,... it has everything it needs.
3) Good cast: Bruce Willis as the cop, Bonnie Bedelia as his wife, Alan Rickman as the bad guy, Reginald VelJohnson as the police man, who helps John from the outside of the building. I have to say that all the characters did a excellent job. The acting skills are very good with no silly dialogues. Alan Rickman surprised me the most with his role as the cold-blooded terrorist. I'd give him an Oscar for that. I'm not joking. And Reginald VelJohnson and Bonnie Bedelia fit right in this work of art. And Bruce Willis just rules as the unbeatable cop, the savior of Christmas. He carries together with Alan Rockman the whole movie and this is definitely his best performance in his career, he's just amazing and became very famous with lines like 'Yippi-Ka-Yee, motherf***er! and 'Jerk-weed'. He's simply the best as the hero who saves the hostages and his wife and after all that, he surely deserved a nice Christmas.
4) The reality: If you see this, this could happen in reality, it's a believable film, maybe that's why this movie has a lot of suspense. I bet that the people who saw it in the cinema were jammed to their seats.
5) John McTiernan: A very good director who has much experience with action movies, for example 'Predator', 'Last Action Hero', 'The Hunt for the Red October' and 'Die Hard: With A Vengeance'. He really made a worth seeing spectacle who's really the mother of the action movies.

So get your ass off that seat and see 'Die Hard' and his sequels now. You won't regret it. Prepare yourself for a huge pile of action.

9/10