If this movie doesn't recharge your batteries, then I don't think anything else will.

Rating: 10/10 (19 July 1999)

"Yippie ki yay, motherf--ker!" This is the line that Bruce Willis delivered in Die Hard, and this is the line that spawned all kinds of idiotic tag lines from dozens of other movies (Ah-nuld's infamous "I'll be back" doesn't count 'cause it came first). Well, lessee what we got here... Bruce Willis and his dinky little handgun as maverick cop John McClane and his dinky little handgun, Alan Rickman (in an insanely good performance) as vicious terrorist Hans Gruber, and a skyscraper-full of hostages and terrorists. Oh, don't forget the explosives. There's so much explosives in this movie that it makes me want to jump for joy. I truly get tired of movies like The Big Hit, which rely too much on a melding of Hong Kong-style gunfighting and basic fist-fights. Die Hard slams into you with the speed of a freight train, with (realistic) gunfights, a truly brutal (again, realistic) battle between Bruce Willis and Alexander Godunov, and an ending that leaves you dizzy, begging director John McTiernan for more. Hey, at least there's two more sequels, and those are just as good (but nowhere near better) as this... the original!