The one time the Die Hard films got it really right

Rating: 8/10 (18 April 2010)

This is my favourite Die Hard film. It has a more interesting plot than any of the others. It doesn't have completely over-the-top action sequences that seem out of place even in a tongue-in-cheek film. Jeremy Irons plays a wonderful villain that rivals even the performance by Alan Rickman in the first film. It's a truly thrilling, quite creepy at times, edge-of-the-seat film. The best thing in the whole thing though is the relationship between the characters of Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson, who are both brilliant together. I enjoyed the sub-plot between them and the racial tension that was there simply because of Jackson's character's paranoia.