Rapid Weapon with a vengeance

Rating: 8/10 (2 December 2005)

In the fist Die Hard, John McClane is trap into a building and cannot get out of it. In Die Harder, he's stuck in a airport to save his wife for a second time. I tough it was a cool and a special way of making an action movie. Give kind of claustrophobia feeling with some scene in ventilation systems and those great elevator shot. The Third one is set in the city. From Central park to the Sub and even into an aqueduct.
Die Hard with a vengeance is a great action movie, but it doesn't have what the first two had : an action movie with only one setting. I liked how they used all the potential of a high building and a airport. It's like those great 70's catastrophe movies like «Airport» or «The Towering Inferno» and «The Posedeon Adcventure».
For the rest, for some reason they gave McClane a partner for the third movie. Sam Jackson is OK, but like I said it's different from the two first. I know the script was first consider for a «Rapid fire 2» and then for «Lethal Weapon 3»,so in these cases they needed two partners. I don't think McClane needed one.
There is definitely more action in this one that in the two first, but maybe less jokes. Bruce Willis is still good and Jeremy Irons is a credible villain.