Bruce still dies hard

Rating: Null/10 (23 April 2007)

John McClane and a store owner must play a bomber's deadly game.
With Live free or Die Hards release I thought I'd review the 1995's Die Hard: With a Vengeance. I missed the Christmas feeling of the first two instalments in this summer set blockbuster and some of the characters of the first two films.
However, on reviewing the first thing that hit me was the sad echoes of real life 9/11 and one wonders if the film would ever have been given the green light now.
That aside the film is very enjoyable as hungover John McClane and Samuel L. Jackson as Zeus, play witty duo, as they run around New York undertaking tasks set out by Simon played by heister Jeremy Irons.
Die hard fans will find the icing on the cake is the direct link to the first film and for everyone else there's the banter between the leads and action scenes. The story is more complex than most action films and Irons bad guy has a little more depth than the usual villain. John McTiernan proves once again he knows how to direct and pace a film while Bruce does McClane blindfolded.