More edge of your seat fun!

Rating: 10/10 (27 September 2010)

48 Hrs., Another 48 Hrs., Rush Hour, The Rundown, Lethal Weapon, Cop Out, what do you have next? Another great buddy-cop style action film "with a vengeance", Die Hard With a Vengeance that is.
It stars Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons, Samuel L. Jackson, Graham Greene, Colleen Camp, etc.
It's a quiet morning in New York City...until a massive bomb explodes in the Bonwit Teller department store, causing several vehicles to flip, and causing several drivers to come to a sudden stop. This throws the NYPD into a frenzy, trying to sort out what's going on. At the station, Inspector Walter Cobb (Larry Bryggman) of the NYPD's major case unit gets a call from a man who calls himself Simon Gruber (Jeremy Irons). Simon asks for Lieutenant John McClane (Bruce Willis), and Walter tells Simon that John, who is now an alcoholic, is on suspension. Simon wants John to go to the corner of 138th Street and Amsterdam in Harlem and wear a racist sign. Walter and his fellow officers Joe Lambert (Graham Greene), Connie Kowalski (Colleen Camp), and Ricky Walsh (Anthony Peck) find John, who is now an alcoholic who is separated from his wife Holly, and they talk to him. Ricky tells Walter that there have been 3 killings in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn in the past two nights, and 14 dump trucks were stolen from a construction yard on Staten Island. John wants to know where the backup is going to be, and Walter tells him that the backup will be on 128th Street, 10 blocks away. John complains that 10 blocks is too far away for the backup to be. Walter tells John that Simon has threatened to detonate another bomb if the police don't do what he says. John wants to know why he's been targeted by Simon, but no one knows why. While John is in Harlem, store owner Zeus Carver (Samuel L. Jackson) rescues John from a black street gang that was beating John up because of the sign. John and Zeus find themselves stuck with each other as Simon continues his antics and forces John and Zeus to work together to do what he tells them, but John and Zeus can't stop one of Simon's bombs from blowing up a subway station, and it turns out that Simon is Simon Peter Gruber the brother of Hans Gruber, the terrorist that John rescued the Nakatomi building from in Los Angeles years ago. The question now is, is this about revenge on John, or is Simon planning something a lot bigger?
Another great action movie with amazing effects, stunning subway crash, unexpected humor, and all around fun flick.
Die Hard With a Vengeance gets 10 stars.