Typical Action Movie

Rating: Null/10 (14 August 2003)

Die Hard with a Vengeance is both an insult to John McTiernan and Bruce Willis. Willis never has been a varied actor, all he's been doing is playing different versions of John McClane ever since the original Die Hard. Here he's a shell of his former self.
What made the original so fun is that it mixed adrenaline with a (better than average sense of realism). Vengeance winds up being a typical action movie, offering nothing new to the audience and certainly inferior to the scope of Die Hard. Samuel Jackson creates another "tough guy" role that allows him to speak his mind, but under some pretty PC constraints.
On the technical level this movie stinks. Did they not have enough money in their $90 million budget to hire a steadicam operator? I won't even get started on the editing...
Overall, I can't disagree with how they made this movie any further. You really don't need to see it to appreciate the first and action fans should look for something a little more intelligent because Aliens and The Terminator are better than this. 1 out of 5 stars.