DIE HARD
Final Body Count: 19
Directed by: John McTiernan
Staring: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Urkle's dad, assorted krauts and swedes.
IMDB Score: 8.2
Plot: John McClane (Willis) kicks terrorists asses in and around a high rise building. McClane is pitted against Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) and his heavy handed terrorist crew (assorted krauts and swedes), while being helped by a police officer, who is Urkle's Dad (Reginald Veljohnson). Lots of guns, and explosions.
Review: Now I am a little biased because this is my favorite movie, but the fact still stands Die Hard is the defining moment of the action genre. Its gotta lot of stuff going for it like:
1. The emergence of Euro Trash villains who weren't communists or nazis. These guys were well equipped and had the means to get shit done. I also heard that one of the hench men did porn. One of them even looks like me.
2. One Liners. If your an action movie buff, you understand the sheer weight a one liner has. Bruce Willis only talks in one liners this movie.
3. Lots of guns and explosions
4. 3 pairs of breasts, 2 of which are in a magazine (see those twice), 1 of which are real that you can see.
Action movies are usually lumped into pieces of fire and gun powder, but Die Hard does something different. Sure it has all that stuff, like a building explodes while John McClane jumps out of it, but what it does different is you have the characters that you care about. Unlike most Schwarzenegger movies where all your doing is watching him rack up a killamanjaro, Die Hard puts you in a situation where you pull for John McClane, hate Hans Gruber, and just want to see how John pulls off the impossible. This distinction puts Die Hard above and beyond what an action movie usually does. While it lets you get away and have fun, you still remember the names of the characters at the end.
The story is great, but the action is where this movie is at. With a whole building exploding for about half the movie, and tons of gun play your going to be on the edge of your seat. I won't get way into the set pieces, but gaw'daym its hard not too. Every 15 minutes something memorable happens that makes you fall out of your seat or eat out your date.
Die Hard is the alpha the omega, the beginning and the end, the salt and the pepper; it is hands down the best action movie ever made by my standards. This is a must buy, or at least a must rent.
VERDICT: I give Die Hard 10 bloody shirts out of 10.
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