Review of Die Hard (1988) by Spangle — 02 Mar 2016
Many people love Die Hard. I, however, am not one of those people. Packed to the brim with bad ideology (anti-European and sexist) and action genre cliches, Die Hard is boring, derivative, and just generally predictable.
Bruce Willis is entertaining in the lead role, but beat-for-beat, I have seen this movie before many many times and that is excluding releases since 1988. The direction from John McTiernan is uninspired and he is practically invisible while his movie falls apart thanks to unrealistic sequences and being overlong.
Honestly, this whole movie is pretty damn unrealistic. That being said, there are positives. Willis is charming, Alan Rickman is phenomenal, and the action is appropriately thrilling and largely well-directed.
Those positives are enough for me to say Die Hard is middle of the road, but I do not really understand the acclaim.
This review of Die Hard (1988) was written by Spangle on 02 Mar 2016.
Die Hard has generally received very positive reviews.
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