John McClane is very hard to kill...

Rating: 10/10 (12 December 2010)

Bruce Willis's character Detective John McClane has become legendary. He is walking barefoot and wearing a vest all through the film and saying a phrase in the film that has become world-famous.
This is macho exemplified. Talk about action and it has to be a John McTiernan film, right? The legendary director of the film Predator (1987) starring Arnold Schwarzenegger yet again scores a hit.
Plot? Who needs a plot in an action flick? On the other hand a good plot surely helps an action film, and this film is no exception. The plot is solid, the stage is set for McClane and its up to him to stop the baddies from fulfilling their objective.
Plot: Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) leads a team of thirteen terrorists to the Nakatomi Plaza building to steal $640 million in bearer bonds from the Nakatomi vault. When Nakatomi executive Joseph Takagi (James Shigeta) refuses to reveal the code for one of the vault's seven locks, Gruber executes him.
Unknown to Gruber, Detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) of the New York City Police Department who is also a guest in the building witnesses this event.
McClane moves through the building, hiding from or killing the terrorists he encounters. He learns more of their motives while acquiring a two-way radio, C4 explosives, and detonators from the body of one terrorist. McClane uses the radio to attract the attention of the LAPD, who send Sergeant Al Powell (Reginald VelJohnson) to investigate.
Who will prevail McClane or Gruber? Watch this film to find out more... or just BUY it on DVD/BLU-RAY.
Die Hard follows its source material — Roderick Thorp's novel Nothing Lasts Forever — closely, much of the film's memorable scenes, characters, and dialogue taken directly from the novel. Nothing Lasts Forever, a sequel to Thorp's earlier novel The Detective, was written with the intention of being adapted into a film sequel to the film adaptation of The Detective, which starred Frank Sinatra. When Sinatra turned down the offer to star in the sequel, the story was altered to be a stand-alone film with no connections to The Detective.
When Die Hard was released, it was highly acclaimed by critics and was considered one of the best action films of its era. Based on 50 reviews collected by the film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 94% of critics gave Die Hard a positive review, with an average rating of 8.2/10.
The film has 3 sequels Die-hard 2, 3, and 4.
The film also spawned the PC games, Die Hard Trilogy (1997) and Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza (2002).