A great ending to the Die Hard trilogy

Rating: 8/10 (18 January 2019)

Die Hard with a Vengeance is the third movie in the Die Hard franchise starring Bruce Willis, Samuel L Jackson, and Jeremy Irons. In this one Brue Willis reprises his role as John McClane who has to stop a mysterious bomber from robbing Fort Knox. The good news is that the writers have ditched the Christmas plot and came up with a brand new idea for the Die Hard series. This would also be the last Die Hard movie until twelve years later we would get Live Free or Die Hard and before then this was a nice way to end the Die Hard Christmas trilogy. This movie doesn't involve Christmas, but it does throw in some Christmas references as a sort of farewell that they are finished with that plot. Because lets be honest having a Die Hard movie-taking place on Christmas is repetitive and also annoying. Accompanying John McClane is Samuel L Jackson who accidently gets dragged into this, as he knows nothing about being a police officer or a detective for that matter. And seeing tis duo on screen is hilarious as it reminds me of a dysfunctional Batman and Robin relationship. Jeremy Irons is the villain of this as he is out for blood after John McClane killed his brother in the first movie. And he acts as the Riddler as he teases them along the way with riddles. And what all this boils down to is that this is what Batman Forever should've been as it has all the elements to make a perfect Batman movie. John McTiernan, who is the director, was a candidate choice for Batman Forever, but he backed out and decided to direct this and I can see why. However, I don't think the movie made the vengeance concept loud enough. The movie is great and the action sequences are terrific however I found that the word vengeance was in the background for the most part. The middle half involves Jeremy Irons and his crew robbing Fort Knox and it isn't until the last five minutes that he decides to get some vengeance that he deserves. And if they combined the two somehow I think they would've had something. Overall, this was a great way to end the Die Hard trilogy as I felt that they wrapped everything up in a beautiful bow.