One of the best action films of the 80's!

Rating: 10/10 (14 January 2008)

The 1980's were probably known to a lot of fans as the best decade for movies with comedies such as Ghostbusters, Risky Business, Sixteen Candles to horror movies ranging from A Nightmare on Elm Street (classic), Friday the 13th series, The Lost Boys and Fright Night. But in terms of action movies, none come as close than the original Die Hard starring Bruce Willis as the rule bending Detective John McClane.
The film starts with John McClane (Willis) going from New York to Los Angeles to be with his wife, Holly, (Bonnie Bedelia) in time for Christmas where a party is being thrown after a successful business deal inside the Nakotomi Plaza. Along the way comes a group of criminals led by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) take control of the party having hostages along with McClane's character in hiding so he can figure out what the hell to do in order to save everybody including his wife. What Hans wants along with his thugs is six-hundred million dollars locked inside the vault where it's going to take a miracle besides passwords to get the money.
With McClane battling some of the thugs, he calls upon the authority to see what they can do in order to help and while Sgt. Al Powell (Reginald VelJohnson) seems to understand what's going on with the fighting New York cop, the other members of authority figures (S.W.A.T., FBI,) can't do a damn thing right where somebody either gets killed or shot.
"Die Hard" is true action glory where not only are the attack sequences choreograph so well done, but the early special effects are a knock out compared to some of the technology today, not to mention the lack of real actors who'd do whatever it takes to make the scenes in movies real along with seeing a serious side to Bruce Willis besides him being a funny actor.
Classic!