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Die Hard (1988)

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From Time Out Film Guide

A hi-tech thriller with a human heart, offering slam-bang entertainment on a par with Lethal Weapon or Aliens. On Christmas Eve, visiting New York cop McClane (Willis) enters the high-rise LA office block where his estranged wife works, not realising that it has already being taken over by sadistic smoothie Hans Gruber (Rickman) and his ruthless terrorists. Inside the building, having taken wife (Bedelia) and celebrating colleagues hostage, the gang tries to crack open the Nakotomi corporation's computerised vault; outside, LA cops and FBI agents squabble over jurisdiction, while opportunistic TV reporters gather like jackals; it's up to McClane, having established a chance radio link with a passing patrolman (Veljohnson), to use the building's 39 empty floors, lift shafts, and heating ducts to improvise diversionary tactics. McTiernan excels in the adrenalin-inducing action scenes, staging the murderous mayhem and state-of-the-art violence as if he were born with a camera in one hand and a rocket launcher in the other..

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Time Out Film Guide

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scrumpyjack said...

Posted on Nov 19 2010 11:58 It's quite simply the Rolls Royce of action movie's and one of my favourite films. Astonishes to this very day.

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k said...

Posted on Jul 31 2009 01:26 Having seen this as a teenager as a kid, and subsequently dodging TV showings, I watched it with a few whiskies tonight and had a blast! The whole thing just cooks from start to finish: sublime no brain action, snappy repeatable one liners, Alan Rickman at uber-villain best and Bruce Willis with hair. What more do you want from an action flick! Classic!

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CHEESE said...

Posted on Sep 05 2007 18:59 its amazingggggggg

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