Stars: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Paul Gleason, William Atherton, Hart Bochner, Alexander Godunov, Robert Davi, James Shigeta, Alan Rickman, Reginald Veljohnson, William Sadler, Franco Nero, Art Evans, John Amos, Debbie James, Jeremy Irons, Samuel L. Jackson, Graham Greene, Colleen Camp

Director: Renny Harlin

Summary: Features 'Die Hard' in which a New York cop heads to Los Angeles to be with his estranged wife for Christmas and finds himself fighting a group of terrorists who have taken over a building... In 'Die Hard 2' a group of commandos seize an international airport, where Detective John McClane awaits the arrival of his wife, and 'Die Hard With A Vengeance' in which a psychotic terrorist targets New York city cop John McClane, who gets help from a civilian explosives expert.

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Exceptionally well-directed by John McTiernan, Die Hardmade Bruce Willis a star back in 1988 and established a new template for action stories. Here the bad guys, led by the velvet-voiced Alan Rickman, assume control of a Los Angeles high-rise with Willis's visiting New York cop inside. The attraction of the film has as much to do with the sight of a barefoot mortal running around the guts of a modern office tower as it has with the plentiful fight sequences and the bond the hero establishes with an LA beat cop. Bonnie Bedelia plays Willis's wife, Hart Bochner is good as a brash hostage who tries negotiating his way to freedom, Alexander Godunov makes for a believable killer with lethal feet and William Atherton is slimy as a busybody reporter.

Director Renny Harlin took the reins for the 1990 sequel, Die Harder, which places Willis's New York City cop in harm's way again with a gaggle of terrorists. This time, Willis awaits his wife's arrival at Dulles Airport in Washington, DC when he gets wind of a plot to blow up the facility. Noisy, overbearing and forgettable, the film has none of the purity of its predecessor's simple story; and it makes a huge miscalculation in allowing a terrible tragedy to occur rather than stretch out the tension. Where Die Hardset new precedents in action movies, Die Hard 2is just an anything-goes spectacle --Tom Keogh

The second sequel, Die Hard with a Vengeancebrings Detective John McClane to New York City to face a better villain than in Die Hard 2. Jeremy Irons is the brother of Alan Rickman's Germanic terrorist-thief from the original film. But this bad guy has his sights set higher: on the Federal Reserve's cache of gold. As a distraction, he sets McClane running fool's errands all over New York--and eventually, McClane attracts an unintentional partner, a Harlem dry cleaner (Samuel L Jackson) with a chip on his shoulder. Some great action sequences can't obscure the rather large plot holes in the film's final 45 minutes. --Marshall Fine

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Year:	1988
Release Date:	September 19, 2005
Runtime:	379 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	25985 T D V D
Keywords:	With, Die, Vengeance, Action, Box, General, Hard, Three, Triple, Set, Adventure, Discs
Genre:	Action/Adventure