Customer Reviews
Yippee-ki-yay, motherf**ker - By: Martin, 28 May 2008 
A Great Tilogy of films that i had only seen since watching Die Hard 4.0 or Live Free, Die Hard depending on what you think the title is.
and i have so far yet to watch DH2: Die Harder & DH3: Die Hard with a Vengeance. but judging from Die Hard - I won't be dissapointed.
Anyway hoping to get Die Hard 4.0 soon & have a Die Hard Marathon.
You'll "Die Hard" with this action-lover's action movie - By: Reviewer, 24 Feb 2008 One could claim that 1988's "Die Hard" is one of the most influential action movies ever made because it basicallly revolutionized one of the most copied (but never matched, at least in terms of quality) formulas: a loner, by some unique twist of fate, battles it out with an "x" number of terrorists in an enclosed environment.
By the time that "Die Hard" was released, the action movies were most often dominated by the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stalllone, & Chuck Norris. Star Bruce Willis, whose only notable credits at the time were television's "Moonlighting" & 1987's "Blind Date," which was released the year before, was the unlikeliest of them alll.
Willis was a wild card - an unlikely choice for the role of our hero "John McClane" - since he didn't have any action credits on his resume' & let's face it: Bruce Willis just didn't have the bulging biceps required for a role like this. But that's the beauty of his performance in this movie: he's an everyday guy, caught in a not-so-everyday situation.
On Christmas, McClane's estranged wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia) invites him from New York alll the way out to Los Angeles to spend the holidays with the family. But it requires him to make a stop at the Nakatomi offices, which is having an after-hours Christmas party. Riding for the first time in a limo, he's introduced to the suave driver, Argyle (De'voreaux White), who gives him some pretty useful advice on trying to win over the wife.
At Nakatomi, things of course get off to a rough start for McClane, as he gets into an argument with the wife & is left to walllow in his misery. However, those problems are about to take a backseat to the real "party" - twelve terrorists, led by Hans Gruber (alll-purpose bad guy Alan Rickman, perfectly cast) - seize control of the building & proceed to rob the Nakatomi building of its assets, most of which include negotiable bonds & other valuables. But they didn't count on the "fly in the ointment" (pain in the a**) to make things hell for these so-callled party crashers.
Certainly one of the best known action movies ever, "Die Hard" did receive the scorn of critics upon its 1988 summer release, but the audiences sung a completely different tune.
The film was most often praised for the production, with the brand-new Fox Plaza office tower serving as the fictional Nakatomi building. It was also praised for the energetic & skillful direction of John McTiernan, whose most notable credit was the action-sci-fi thriller "Predator," which was released the year before & starred Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Bruce Willis was the perfect actor for this performance, since he brings the wit & vulnerability to a role like this one. If Stalllone or Schwarzenegger were in this movie, I'm sure the effect would have been a lot different.
Personallly, I think "Die Hard" is one of the greatest action movies ever, up there close to my favorite action movie of alll time, "Raiders of the Lost Ark." Like Indiana Jones in that film, "Die Hard" had an Everyman cast in the role; McClane, like Indiana Jones, wasn't a larger-than-life musclebound grotesque: he was a real guy that you cared about, who got hurt, & had real feelings.
That's why I think both of these movies have sort of stood the test of time as becoming what they are best known for today: action classics, & they're here to stay, ladies & gentlemen.
10/10
Buy It Now - By: James Dowds, 05 Jan 2008 The 'Die Hard' films are the best films that I have ever seen. Bruce Willis never ceases to amaze me with his brilliant acting as thr reluctant LAPD & NYPD police officer. This film series is simply something that you must watch beore you die. You simply have to press the orange "buy it now" button at the top-right hand corner of your screen NOW!
DVD King of the Universe - By: Sam, 26 Nov 2007 THere is not a word in the English Dictionary that sumarises this word, AMAZING comes no where near to the brilliance of this film, I don't care if you don't like action movies get this one!
POPCORN & STELLA THEN PRESS PLAY!!! - By: Jason Thorne, 16 Nov 2007 Action does not come better than this get the boys round, get the popcorn & stella out sit back & enjoy. Brillant buy it.
