Die Hard 3

Rating: 9/10 (3 March 2013)

Bruce Willis reprises his role as Detective Lieutenant John McClane in director John McTiernan's crime thriller "Die Hard with a Vengeance" with Samuel L. Jackson co-starring as a racist African-American. McClane is back with the New York Police Department, but he has been on suspension. McClane teams up with Zeus Carver to battle with a master criminal who has orchestrated the caper of a life-time. These two opposites meet in Harlem when McClane is dispatched across 110th Street and forced to wear a set of wooden sandwich boards with the N-word written on it. What we don't learn until later on is the villainous Simon Peter Gruber is related to Hans Gruber in "Die Hard," and he is exacting revenge while he steals the Federal Reserve Bank Depository blind. Simon Gruber (Jeremy Irons of "Damage") keeps our heroes trotting along over New York City on his random errands. Zeus finds himself stuck with McClane and Samuel L. Jackson enlivens things considerably with his hot-headed character. There are more than enough thrills to keep our attention.