Best of the series.

Rating: Null/10 (25 September 2001)

One of my guilty pleasures is watching action films that have good honest rotten to the core villains who are so smart that I can actually start pulling from them. Such films are rare. The reason for this is simple. So much time is spent working in tough guy cliches' and wild stunts that the creators of such films don't pay much attention to charactor development. In "Die hard with a vengence" The writers give us stunts galore. They give us the standard macho commentary to the hilt. But they also came up with bad guy who is clever you just gotta like him.
Said villain, One Simon Peter Gruber, played with relish by Jeremy Irons is the brother of Hans Gruber the villan from the original Die Hard movie. SPG has come to NYC to get revenge on police Detective John McClain....Bruce Willis; the man responsible for his brothers death.
But SPG's motives are two fold. While pounding away on McClain, Gruber also plans the greatest heist in world history. With the aid of a small army of international thugs and some brillant scheming he just might pull it off. Unless of course McClain and his unwanted civilian partner....Zeus Carver...Samuel Jackson, can figure out his plans and bring them to a screeching halt.
Gruber's primary plot is sheer evil genius. Worthy of the efforts of Professor Moriarty. McClain and Carver are no Holmes and Watson. But what they lack for in deductive reasoning they more than make up for in guts and tenacity.