The best action movie ever!

Rating: 10/10 (17 August 2007)

Without a doubt this is the best action movie ever.
There were a few great action movies before die hard. Dirty Harry, Mad Max and lethal weapon. (lethal weapon was made a year earlier) Dirty Harry started the real action movie genre, before that there were only westerns and second world war movies which were good but not the modern action we see today that have gun fights whilst driving cars and people running across roof tops then putting about 12 bullets in one person. Then in 1988 die hard was made and it exceeded past pretty much any action movie, and in my opinion still does. The action in die hard was brought to a new level, more bullets were fired more explosions a lot more "drop it you mother f#####" and "listen to me you little s###" were said which added that extra realism to Willis's characters situation,
I forgot to tell you the storyline sorry! heres a brief explanation if you don't want to know the story because you want to watch it, skip the next paragraph.
Lieutenant John McClane(Bruce Willis) is a New York cop who has travelled to California to see his wife at her boss's opening of the nakatomie plaza.(huge sky scraper) when he gets there he goes to have wash and unknown to every one 12 terrorists have entered the building lead by Hans Grubar(Alan Rickman) who obviously has a hidden agenda. Suddenly the terrorists burst into the party and McClane who is half way through getting dressed hears gun fire, he quickly draws his gun (9mm beretta 92F) and escapes up the stairs unnoticed, From that moment on McClane is on a race against time to save the 30 or so hostages and his wife.
Not only do i like this movie for the action and suspense but the script is brilliant and the acting from all the cast is great. Bruce Willis's performance as John McClane is amazing and one of his best, he plays a very good tough guy and whenever something bad happens you care about the character, Bruce has some great one liners in this movie one of my favourites is when McClane is trying to signal a police car so he throws a dead body out the window which lands on the police car, then the camera looks up at him from just below the window and he shouts "Welcome to the party pal" which i know dosn't sound that impressive but when you see the movie hes standing there covered in blood and dirt and holding a sub machine gun (MP5 A5) its looks quite cool. Alan Rickman is a great bad guy, he places a very smart, polite well brought up person but at the same time completely evil which is hard to to pull off but Rickman does it with style. Alexander Godunov plays Carl a henchman type character who's great, and a good match for McClane. Bonnie Bedelia plays McClane's wife she gives a good performance.
With the great acting, great action and a great script makes die hard a instant classic and a must see.
I give this movie 10 out of 10
Heres something that will make you laugh, apparently Arnie was offered the part of John McClane and he declined, thats a very good thing.