Die Hard

4.00
    Die Hard
    1988

    Synopsis

    NYPD cop John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when, minutes after he arrives at her office, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking McClane sets out to single-handedly rescue the hostages and bring the bad guys down.

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    Cast

    • Bruce WillisJohn McClane
    • Alan RickmanHans Gruber
    • Alexander GodunovKarl
    • Bonnie BedeliaHolly Gennaro McClane
    • Reginald VelJohnsonAl Powell
    • Paul GleasonDwayne Robinson
    • De'voreaux WhiteArgyle
    • William AthertonRichard Thornburg
    • Hart BochnerHarry Ellis
    • James ShigetaJoseph Yoshinobu Takagi

    Recommendations

    • 100

      ReelViews

      Not only is it a thrill-a-minute ride, but it has one of the best film villains in recent memory, a hero everyone can relate to, dialogue that crackles with wit, and a lot of very impressive pyrotechnics.
    • 88

      USA Today

      The result is a foot-stomping rouser. Where else can you get a cop in his underwear boogalooing with skyscraper terrorists? [15 July 1988, Life, p.4D]
    • 80

      Washington Post

      A firepowered, blood-drenched action picture that doesn't let up.
    • 75

      San Francisco Chronicle

      Slick, glossy, overblown, implausible. [15 July 1988, Daily Notebook, p.E1]
    • 75

      Chicago Tribune

      Has everything but a personality. [15 July 1988, Friday, p.A]
    • 70

      The New York Times

      Has to be the most excessive film around. It piles every known element of the action genre onto the flimsy story. [15 July 1988]
    • 60

      TV Guide Magazine

      A triumph of slick direction and lowbrow thrills, marred but not spoiled by a sour aftertaste.
    • 60

      Los Angeles Times

      As a grand flourish of cinematic technique, it is awesome; as a human drama, it is disgusting and silly, a mindless depiction of carnage on an epic scale. [15 July 1988, Calendar, p.6-1]

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