The best Christmas movie

Rating: 10/10 (26 December 2018)

What is the greatest Christmas movie of all time? Is it Home Alone? Elf? Love Actually? No it's Die Hard. Die Hard stars Bruce Willis and the late Alan Rickman. Bruce Willis plays John McClane a New York cop who gets invited to a Christmas party at Nakatomi Plaza to visit his ex fiancÃ©. However when he arrives terrorists take control of Nakatomi and its up to John McClane to save the day. The reason why Die Hard is a Christmas movie is because it's not afraid to be different than the other Christmas movies out there. It does follow the same rules as Christmas that we all know, but the filmmakers take the classic Christmas movies that we grew up with and flip it upside down. And now what we have here is It's a Wonderful Life meets Rambo. There's no law that says that every Christmas movie has to be light hearted. Or that it has to be a magical, family friendly experience with an ending that puts a smile on your face. And when you breakdown Die Hard that's what it is. A magical, family friendly experience with an ending that puts a smile on your face, only with guns and terrific action sequences. But what makes this movie perfect is Alan Rickman's performance as Hans Gruber an evil, but fun loving Grinch trying to steal Christmas. In all the movies where terrorists seize control of a building there's always a leader involve, but none of them will ever beat Alan Rickman. He possesses charm, charisma, and carefreeness that in the end I don't hate him, nor do I find him annoying, but interesting. He's like the type of person who you wouldn't mind having a beer with because everything he says is so brilliant. And deep down in the part of my brain I actually want him to succeed, but this is a Christmas movie and you can't let your antagonists win. I didn't think this as a Christmas film at first, but as a fantastic blockbuster and when this movie first came out it had a summer release. But the more I thought about it, that even though the movie had a summer release date and the plot of the movie is on Christmas the more I asked myself: Is Die Hard a Christmas movie. And the answer is always the same. Yes it is because it dares to be different and it's not afraid to express its true colors. I bet when they first pitched this movie of combing action and Christmas everybody laughed and said it couldn't be done. But they did that and what they gave us is the greatest Christmas action films of all time. So in conclusion put down your copies of Elf, Love Actually, and Home Alone, because you haven't really experienced Christmas until you watch Die Hard.