Great pace, great gun battles, great fun.
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11/27/07
Die Hard (1988)
96 %
Reviews Counted: 48 Fresh: 46 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 8.3/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 12 mins
Synopsis: One of the greatest action movies of the late 1980s, DIE HARD ushered in a new standard for the genre. With the dissolution of the Cold War, both the stereotypical Russian threat (represented in movies such as TOP GUN and RED DAWN) and the destructive egoist (as seen in OCTOPUSSY) became less... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, Reginald VelJohnson
Director: John McTiernan
Screenwriter: Jeb Stuart, Steven E. De Souza
Producer: Lawrence Gordon, Joel Silver
Composer: Michael Kamen
Screenwriter: Jeb Stuart, Steven E. De Souza
Producer: Lawrence Gordon, Joel Silver
Composer: Michael Kamen
Reviews
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The granddaddy of a whole genre of action films still remains sharp, tough, and exciting.
04/17/01
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04/07/08
Die Hard is as high tech, rock hard and souped up as an action film can be.
11/27/07
Top Critic
A serviceable if rather overextended and overblown adventure thriller.
11/27/07
...remains one of the most entertaining and flat-out thrilling examples of the action genre...
06/26/07
Great escapist action, but it's still nothing more than an action movie %u2013 cinema's version of a nice, tasty hamburger.
06/14/07
The pumped-up, high tech surprise hit of 1988; a triumph of slick direction and lowbrow thrills, marred but not spoiled by a sour aftertaste.
12/04/06
Top Critic
A seminal action film that created an entire subgenre. Super action, but the key to its success is how it effectively pits Willis' common-man hero against Rickman's haughty arch-villain.
03/04/06
Every so often a movie comes along whose concept sparks a flood of imitators. Die Hard is such a movie.
09/30/05
'A landmark film that breathed life and originality into an area of cinema where only formulas were proven reliable.'
07/18/04
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