The Action Will Surely Make Your Head Spin

Rating: 7/10 (2 January 2017)

In the 1960's and 1970's in an action film the audience would get their adrenaline rush just by one exciting stunt and would leave the theatre with a smile of satisfaction. By the 1980's and 1990's, the action stunts and explosives are just non-stop you will eventually be looking for an aspirin to cure your migraines. "Die Hard: With A Vengeance" showcases an explosive action romp that's an action junkies paradise it'll make them hypnotized until the end of days.
This third installment to the "Die Hard" series stars Bruce Willis returning as John McClane who's recently been suspended from the New York police force. We can tell from a scene where the chief shoves his badge across his desk think McClane is back on the prowl. When he acknowledged this analogy, people opened up with a subtle chuckle from action fans who like a little humour to go with the wild ride that's coming to them.
After the very authentic looking explosion at a department store in the greater Manhattan area, McClane gets a mysterious call from an evil bomber who goes by the name of Simon (Jeremy Irons), who lures McClane to wear a placard around his body uttering a racial hatred towards African Americans. McClane gets some assistance from a Harlem store owner named Zeus Carver (Samuel L. Jackson) and now he's caught in this sickening mind games by this dastardly Simon.
As simple as can be the film is not depended on acting or method. This film relies heavily on stunts, explosives and in your face to make you lose your mind. Simon's whereabouts seem to be omnipresent as McClane and Zeus are roaming all over Manhattan on one deadly mission after another (even going as far as to bum a cab across Central Park). The whole Manhattan Island seems to be infested with bombs, which also includes the subway and even a city school.
But Simon's reason for his madness is not just on his own, he has a personal vendetta against McClane and he's not in on this alone. He's come equipped with his own personal army and has vengeance on John for the death of his brother from the first "Die Hard" movie.
Willis and Jackson show some great, reluctant chemistry even though most of their dialogue was saturated with racial undertones and neither man has any kind of racial hostilities. Jackson's use of clever observations and puzzle solving is the perfect foil to McClane's manic live life in danger attitude.
Near the end of the chaos were all in awe when the bomb squad members become overwhelmed when a super machine is unraveled that could cause a devastating impact that could cause terror all over Manhattan and the time is ticking fast. There's also the trivializing question of which wire to cut. Simon's plans seem to be pure genius, though it's hard to know how the trucks came to the scenes from Canada. Jeremy Irons is another long list of villains who are British extraction. He joins the faction of Alan Rickman, Tim Roth, Gary Oldman and Sir Anthony Hopkins and his rich, calculating voice has the villainy we can all love to detest.
But the acting is overall very secondary as we all come to see our heroes defy death-laden assignments and the excitement will keep you in stitches. We are here to see two men slide from a bridge cable onto a nearby ship, we want to see vehicles topple over like they were Tonka toys. This movie is a kids toy car collection come to life. In the end it just delivers what it promises with a vengeance.
On an afterthought, this film was released one month after a real life bombing in Oklahoma City which killed several civilians mostly young school children. As an act of humanity Willis actually refused to make references of this real tragedy in comparison to the bombings. We can respect Willis even more after the closing credits.