The perfect popcorn movie...

Rating: 10/10 (20 July 2004)

'Die Hard', and its inventively-named sequel 'Die Hard 2: Die Harder' serve as the perfect popcorn movies. Fast-paced adrenaline-pumped bullet-fests that keep the audience mesmerized - which is exactly what we seem to lack in the current generation.
They have now been divided into two categories - the PC hero - and the watered-down, generic McClane (e.g. Vin Diesel in XXX). Die Hard redefined the hero movie for the modern age, and were it not for him, those who sought an all-American hero would be forced to look elsewhere.
Dead Poet's Society it isn't - this movie will never win any awards for its wit or prose. However, it is thrilling excitement crammed into just under two hours - which, to me, has an equally justified place upon my DVD shelf.