Great sequels die hard

Rating: 9/10 (4 August 2019)

I watched this back in '95 an I re-watched almost 24 years later to reach the same conclusion: it's a great action movie.
The simple fact that it's still very enjoyable after all this time shows how good it was in the first place. Action packed, funny, unpredictable are only some of the words that come to your mind when you're watching Die Hard with a Vengeance.
McTiernan really pulled all the stops with the pacing and the cast:, creating a formula that sadly few films have succesfully copied. Also, New York is the perfect background for the visual chaos that's thrown to the screen every couple of minutes. In fact, the intro sequence alone is already a classic.
The only negative points are a third act that's too tame compared to the beginning and a few jokes that weren't good back then and are even worse now. All in all, however, we're talking top notch stuff here, and a true classic in the action genre.Best of the sequels, almost as good as the first